Bottomland Quotes

#1. He crashed a dozen Cadillacs in one year and played the Apollo. With racial hatred burning in the headlines, the audience danced in the seats to a white boy from the bottomland, backed by pickers who talked like Ernest Tubb. "James Brown kissed me on my cheek," he says. "Top that.

Rick Bragg

#2. Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Thomas Huxley

#3. I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.

Wes Craven

#4. No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

Woodrow Wilson

#5. If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#6. Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.

Klaus Nomi

#7. It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

Andrew Hill

#8. Your place is no different to mine," Gethin said.
"Really?"
"Maybe the pattern of mould on the wall's a bit more
interesting here. Patches of aspergillus, cladosporium and stachybotrys atra.

Barbara Elsborg

#9. Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

Lord Hailsham

#10. These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.

Anne Lamott

#11. I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia.

Kelly Hu

#12. I think 'slow writing' is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the 'slow food' movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process.

Rosaleen Love

#13. Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

Bruce Willis

#14. Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.

Tom Shales