Southern Folksy Quotes & Sayings

If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing - a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. — Arthur Conan Doyle

This piece of iron which he had been allowed to keep aroused a more profound wave of gratitude towards heaven in his heart than he had experienced, in his previous life, from the greatest blessings that had descended upon him. — Alexandre Dumas

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for. — Quentin Blake

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. — Noam Chomsky

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. — Thomas Paine

Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous ... They're heavy like Soundgarden or Zeppelin with killer female vocals, but with their own unique style. — Jack Endino

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. — Thomas Carlyle

Evil tongues never want a whet. — Alain-Rene Lesage

Matthew kept hinting that Strike was somehow a fake. He seemed to feel that being a private detective was a far-fetched job, like astronaut or lion tamer; that real people did not do such things. — Robert Galbraith

In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order. — Jeffrey Fry

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin. — Frank Zappa

We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders. — Sergei Lavrov

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere ... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality ... That this promise was an illusion we all know. — Peter Drucker

It's hard [arriving just before the game], but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team. — Cappie Pondexter