Sunbelt Quotes & Sayings

I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window ... Up to now, that hasn't been mine. — Matthea Harvey

A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole. — Eric Hoffer

On a recent flight from Tokyo to Beijing, at around the time that my lunch tray was taken away, I remembered that I needed to learn Mandarin. "Goddamnit," I whispered. "I knew I forgot something. — David Sedaris

I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best ... — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

Before we can progress in providing answers ... we have to repent of our questions. — Peter J. Leithart

Technology innovation for the sake of innovation is an empty shell if we focus on what people don't need but would buy anyways. — Iveta Cherneva

I prefer to live in the South but on my own terms. It takes some doing to insert oneself in such a way as not to succumb to the ghosts of the Old South or the happy hustlers of the new Sunbelt South. — Walker Percy

From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums. — Gerald Celente

I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time. — Brandy Norwood

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not. — Marc Almond

The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony. — Alan Macfarlane

Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are. — Ilchi Lee

Take the case of prostitutes, a group more or less available every night. As a young man, Proust had been a compulsive masturbator, so compulsive that his father had urged him to go to a brothel, to take his mind off what the nineteenth century considered to be a highly dangerous pastime. In a candid letter to his grandfather, sixteen-year-old Marcel described how the visit had gone: I so badly needed to see a woman in order to stop my bad habits of masturbating that papa gave me 10 francs to go to the brothel. But, 1st in my excitement, I broke the chamber pot, 3 francs, 2nd in this same excitement, I wasn't able to have sex. So now I'm back to square one, constantly waiting for another 10 francs to empty myself and for 3 more francs for that pot. — Alain De Botton

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience. — Daniel Wu

Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society. — Inga Muscio

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods. — Hunter Parrish