Classic Minnesota Sayings

#1. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Aberjhani

#2. 1. The Amazing Race
2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans
3. Oh.
(Joe O'Neill, from Opium)

Dave Eggers

#3. The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We're lucky to be living now.

Gustave Flaubert

#4. I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.

Richard Dean Anderson

#5. That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

Jessica Park

#6. What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)

Michele Norris

#7. She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars.

Lorrie Moore

#8. I'm attracted to women, no doubt about it. I'm also attracted to men, apparently. Wonderful. Complicated fellow, my dick.

Sarina Bowen

#9. That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Nora Ephron