Southbound And Down Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever had an experience where, had things turned out just a little bit differently, your entire life would have been transformed?

Like a Supreme Court clerkship, a Rhodes Scholarship gets mentioned in your obituary.

The door was open just a crack, in a way that seemed to say "I have an 'open door' policy, but I really don't want to be bothered."

Success didn't take you off the treadmill, but simply put you on a different treadmill, at a higher speed and with a steeper incline.

When we're young, overachieving, and unstoppable, we all think we're special. But as we grow older, we reach a more realistic understanding of our place in the world. It happens at different times for different people, but eventually we all come to terms with our own ordinariness. — David Lat

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world. — Paul Conneally

Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries: go and find something of your own to defend. You've finished teething and there's the world: crack it open if you can. — Dorothy Dunnett

Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday. — Albert Brooks

If ye were of this world the world would love you, but I have chosen you out of the world; be ye therefore perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. — Honore De Balzac

Married to the game. If we're dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars. — Young Jeezy

Always look for your lost ones in trashcans. — Alex Gaskarth

I was nervous because I really wanted this to go well. — N.R. Walker

Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you
do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale? — Chuck Palahniuk

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle

The one question you can't ask is, is this feature actually good or not? — Emmett Shear

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. — David Leavitt

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity ... After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians? — Adolf Hitler