Appalachian Novels Quotes

#1. Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Timothy Leary

#2. Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.

Micheal Rivers

#3. The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.

Micheal Rivers

#4. There are two things I am afraid of. One is dying young. The other is Johnny Monroe.

Susan Gabriel

#5. True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

Angelica Hopes

#6. Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud...a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide.

Sharyn McCrumb

#7. What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

Najib Mikati

#8. But let's get one thing straight. I'm not a tool and I'm not a victim. Remember who's putting their ass on the line so you continue to enjoy the right to speak your mind," he told me.

D.H. Cameron

#9. Well?" he prompted, toying with the elastic of her leggings. "What should we do with these pants, Bailey?"
One teasing stroke of his fingers over her belly, and a breath shuddered out of her lungs.
"Take them off," she choked out.

Elle Kennedy

#10. The art of reading, as of learning, is this: ... to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

Adolf Hitler

#11. Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

Micheal Rivers

#12. In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

Elizabeth Goudge

#13. We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. The pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.

Edward Weston

#15. When I said "I love you" I meant forever. If I said "I hate you" I meant never.

Alysha Speer

#16. A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

Lou Holtz

#17. I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

John Dramani Mahama

#18. Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

Walter Washington

#19. I'm losing air over here, you know," Lassiter bitched. "My inflatable is deflating." V cursed. "That's because it doesn't want to be around you any more than we do.

J.R. Ward

#20. I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means of increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

William S. Burroughs