Athens Georgia Quotes

#1. The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

Alton Brown

#2. He had no choice. None at all. His kind rarely did.

His shoulders slumped in resignation. He hung his head. His will, his pride, gone.

Evangeline Collins

#3. When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.

Marilyn Manson

#5. The sternest commissar and the wildest hippie both share the same daydream: that a thing can be worth other than people are willing to give for it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Honestly, my goals shift and change, as I move along.

Tracy Spiridakos

#7. Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.

Vishwas Chavan

#9. We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#10. So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

Michael Stipe

#11. One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others

Rollo May

#12. He seemed genuinely astonished. "You admire me?"
"Yes," she said gravely. "All of us do things we regret
that's part of being human. And sometimes, I think, moral quality reveals itself not so much in what we do, but in what we later say about what we have done ...

Alexander McCall Smith