Podunk Quotes & Sayings

It is possible to lead several lives at once. In fact, it is impossible not to. Sometimes these lives overlap and interact. It is busy work living them and it requires stamina that a singular life doesn't need. Sometimes these lives live peaceably in the house of the body. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they grouse and bicker and storm upstairs and shout from windows and don't take out the trash. Some other times, these lives, these several lives, each indulge several lives of their own. And those lives, like rabbits or rodents, multiply, make children of themselves. And those child lives birth others. This is when a woman ceases leading her own life. This is when the lives start leading her. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

It took one move, one Podunk town - shit, one girl - to realize that we're all just people. Rich, poor, talented, awkward - we're all just people, trying to survive the world that seems hell bent on trying to ruin us before we can find our place. It — Kristen Kehoe

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up. — Marlena De Blasi

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song. — Joni Mitchell

If you can't make up your mind decisively, then you'll never learn to make money anyway. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time. — Bobby Doerr

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing. — Eddie Vedder

My thoughts turned back to my parents and their apparent penchant for being big ol' liars. — Rachel Hawkins

The Web itself doesn't as much change the way we do things as it changes the ease with which we do things. And that changes the way we do everything. — David A. Siegel

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. — A.A. Milne

I still couldn't believe that he was actually mine; an international super assassin in love with an emotionally unbalanced kid from Podunk, Illinois. Adn I was his. — Nicole Castle

to attend?" With that, he lost patience. "Give it up, Ali. You're not taking a job in podunk Eternity Springs. You're not leaving." Her eyes went to ice. She removed her sunglasses from her shoulder bag, then slipped them on. In a voice as cold as January, she declared, "Just watch me, your honor. Just fucking watch me. — Emily March

Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from. — Cheech Marin

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. — Aristotle.

You've got to be kidding. No self-respecting demon would be caught undead here. Heck, we're so podunk we don't even have a Burger Doodle."
"Demons find this Burger Doodle attractive?"
"Nah, if I had to guess, I'd say they're more into soul food." She clapped her hands over her mouth. "Oh, God, I made a pun. Slap me. — Lexi George

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there. — Terry Teachout

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems. — Linus Torvalds

We were wonderful, but we were not flawless. We knew excellence because we knew failure. We were human beings. — Daniel Black

The past and the present coagulate into something that makes sense to him. — Dominic Smith

The bait's got a theory; the bait's finding a practice, working it out; the bait's going to write it down and she don't have to use words, she'll make signs, in blood, she's good at bleeding, boys, the vein's open, boys, the bait's got plenty, each month more and more without dying for a certain long period of her life, she can lose it or use it, she works in broad strokes, she makes big gestures, big signs; oh and honey there's so much bait around that there's going to be a bloodbath in the old town tonight, when the new art gets its start. — Andrea Dworkin

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. — Gwendoline Christie