Southern Front Porch Quotes & Sayings

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn't calculate my steps. I didn't have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are. — Alice Sebold

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really. — Brett Ratner

Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the "in vain," insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure- - being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long. - — Friedrich Nietzsche

Maybe they have to be crazy. — Brent Schlender

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. — Barack Obama

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on. — Kiernan Shipka

Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished. — Joseph Prince

The purity and perfection are yet to be invented. — Chandrashekar

They are as empty without a young as we are empty without them — J.R. Ward

If ya let hornets rest in yer outhouse, it's hard t'get pissed when they buzz down and sting yer ass. — Stephen J. Cannell

At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I'd thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she'd shown. Soon, though, I'd figured out the animals' true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food. — Kelley Armstrong

Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become. — Robert Farrar Capon