Prateria Peasant Quotes & Sayings

It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester."
- Your parents must be so proud you can read."
- They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat. — Nicholas Sparks

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. — Antoine Fuqua

Shannon looked at the dumpy ruins around her. It was expansive and disgusting, but like a dog dump with a lace doily draped over it, there was beauty to be found — Debra Anastasia

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party. — Nancy Pelosi

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years. — David Foster Wallace

Rick Santorum said this week that his 12-year-old could out-reason me about God. Look, I am not about to debate a home-schooled 12-year-old. I have enough trouble with Sarah Palin. — Bill Maher

We went to the double feature last night" ...
"My recollection, it was a triple," Raiden muttered. — Kristen Ashley

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably? — Henry David Thoreau

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass. — Keith Murray

Courage is doing what is needed despite one's fear. Without the fear, it's merely . . . fearlessness." He — Alissa Johnson