Soouthern Quotes & Sayings

I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space. — Michelle Dockery

I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT. — Larry The Cable Guy

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. — Lao-Tzu

Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down. — Anthony Powell

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that. — Bill Cowher

I'll never forget that, because you were right. And I know you weren't trying to teach me a lesson, but you did. Not everything is going to go my way and not everyone gets a happily ever after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope. I'm going to accept it with a dose of your indifference, and move on. — Colleen Hoover

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
Yes, into Life's deep stream!
All forms of sorrow and delight,
All solemn Voices of the Night,
That can soothe thee, or affright, -
Be these henceforth thy theme.
(excerpt from "Voices of the Night") — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace. — David Foster Wallace

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. — John Major

Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is finding the balance between going out to get what you want and being open to the thing that actually winds up coming your way. — Ann Patchett

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself. — Gregory Bateson

The American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially. — Margaret Halsey

The more aspiration is partial realization. — Anna Cora Mowatt

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong. — Ann Patchett

In the days that followed, the Baudelaire orphans had pits in their stomachs. In Sunny's case it was understandable, because when Klaus had divided the peach, she had gotten the part with the pit. — Lemony Snicket

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred. — William Faulkner