Sho Quotes & Sayings

You're a trivial part in a trivia game.
Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign?
Like Ross Perot? He lost it though ...
But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'! — Aceyalone

As they walked through the bright noon, up the sandy road with the dispersing congregation talking easily again group to group, she continued to weep, unmindful of the talk.
"He sho a preacher, mon!! He didn't look like much at first, but hush!"
"He seed de power en de glory."
"Yes, suh. He seed hit. Face to face he seed hit."
Dilsey made no sound, her face did not quiver as the tears took their sunken and devious courses, walking with her head up, making no effort to dry them away even.
"Whyn't you quit dat, mammy?" Frony said. "Wid all dese people lookin. We be passin white folks soon."
"I've seed de first en de last," Dilsey said. "Never you mind me."
"First en last whut?" Frony said.
"Never you mind," Dilsey said. "I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin. — William Faulkner

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you. — Daniel Black

I'm in love, with a higher love! — Sho Baraka

What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. — Bo Burnham

The past is just data. I only see the future. — Ayrton Senna

We're involved with flower, fruit, grapevine.
They speak more than the language of the year.
Out of the darkness a blaze of colors appears,
and one perhaps that has the jealous shine
Of the dead, those who strengthen the earth.
What do we know of the part they assume?
It's long been their habit to marrow the loam
with their own free marrow through and through.
Now the one question: Is it done gladly?
The work of sullen slaves, does this fruit
thrust up, clenched, toward us, its masters?
Sleeping with roots, granting us only
out of their surplus this hybrid made of mute
strength and kisses - are they the masters? — Rainer Maria Rilke

Tony's patois kept getting broader as we talked. Like Hawk, he seemed able to turn it on and off. "Sho 'nuff," he said. — Robert B. Parker

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't. — Harper Lee

Paul a smart kid," Hawk said. "I know." "And he pretty strong," Hawk said. "He is." "Got from his uncle," Hawk said. "Uncle Hawk?" "Sho' nuff." "Jesus Christ," I said. — Robert B. Parker

Black is beautiful .Black isn't power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don't know and you ain't got no dough, you can't go and that's for sho'. — Lewis H. Michaux

Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be. — Robert Herrick

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it. — William Faulkner

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up? — Sho Baraka

Wait, what? Ain't no thing. I'ma choke you out ironically, Evan, so you be too cool for school. Cool as a motherfuckin' corpse, Evan."
He let a little air through.
"I love something! I do love something."
"You do?"
"My cat, Cisco."
"Cisco? After the outlaw?"
"After the networking company."
"Yeah, I'm sho-nuff gonna choke this motherfucker out! — Christopher Moore

Twin Peaks was my religion. Well, Twin Peaks and Christianity. But at present, Twin Peaks was winning. I loved God, but at the moment I was more obsessed with Bob and Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne. — Moby

It's bad bein' strange niggers wid white folks. Everybody is aginst yuh." "Dat sho is de truth. De ones de white man know is nice colored folks. De ones he don't know is bad niggers. — Zora Neale Hurston

Besides, I don't take issue with the term as much as the fact that you feel you can judge me. I despise judgmental people."
"As do most creatures who deserve to be judged."
"You got me. I'm a ho fo sho."
-What did that mean?- "You speak like a human."
She nodded, as if that hadn't been an insult as well. "I watch a lot of TV. — Kresley Cole

Back seat drivers don't know the feel of the wheel
but they sho' know how to make a fuss"
Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, "Let's Keep It Between Us," 1982 — Bob Dylan

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding. — Taron Egerton

I was born in the Chi fo sho' and raised there till I was like 15. I then went on the road with X [DMX] and then moved to New York. I've moved to L.A. since then. I really have been bouncing around since 15. — Yung Berg

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada. — Paul Cellucci

Somebody put a Fascist Toejam cassette, 300 watts of sonic apocalypse, on to the van stereo, Isaiah gallantly handed Prairie up into the lurid fuchsia padding of this rolling orgy room, where she became indistinct among an unreadable pattern of Vomitones and their girlfriends, and quickly, in an arc unexpectedly graceful, they had all turned outward, tached up, engaged, and like a time machine departing for the future, forever too soon for Zoyd, boomed away up the thin, cloudpressed lane. — Thomas Pynchon

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest. — Emily Carr

Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them. I'm satisfied with it. It's a good enough tick for me." "Sho, there's — Mark Twain

I loved Europe so much. — Robin Wright

I despise judgmental people." "As do most creatures who deserve to be judged." "You got me. I'm a ho fo sho. — Kresley Cole

Somebody got to think for women and chillun and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves ... When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one. — Zora Neale Hurston

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. — Marquis De Sade

Sometimes I ain't sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he ain't. Sometimes I think it ain't none of us pure crazy and ain't none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it. [ ... ] That's how I reckon a man is crazy. That's how he can't see eye to eye with other folks. And I reckon they ain't nothing else to do with him but what the most folks says is right. — William Faulkner

You can be a dreamer, but don't live in your bed. — Sho Baraka

The Shadow shall rise across the world, and darken every land, even to the smallest corner, and there shall be neither Light nor safety. And he who shall be born of the Dawn, born of the Maiden, according to Prophecy, he shall stretch forth his hands to catch the Shadow, and the world shall scream in the pain of salvation. All Glory be to the Creator, and to the Light, and to he sho shall be born again. May the Light save us from him.
-from Commentaries on the Karaethon Cycle Sereine dar Shamelle Motara Counsel-Sister to Comaelle, High Queen of Jaramide (circa 325 AB, the Third Age) — Robert Jordan

Alex laughs softly. "After poetry," he says, leaning down to kiss me, "we move on to fairy tales. — Lauren Oliver

Only a Ninja can kill a Ninja! — Sho Kosugi

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal. — Sakurai Sho

She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin. — Philippa Gregory