Collier County Quotes

#1. It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel, "Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society")

Amy Hill Hearth

#2. Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle,

George Jung

#3. Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

Bryant McGill

#4. You know Mountgerald, the big house at the end of the High Street? There's a ghost there, a workman on the house who was killed as a sacrifice for the foundation. In the eighteenth century sometime; that's really fairly recent," he added thoughtfully.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. With each project, whether it's an album or a mixtape, I try to learn more in the process.

Yo Gotti

#6. It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#7. Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

Padma Lakshmi

#8. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Charles Lamb

#9. Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

Benjamin Franklin

#11. No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

T. S. Eliot

#12. Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there.

Dave Davies

#13. People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

Billy Bob Thornton

#14. I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like Cyd Charisse. But women identify with me. And while men desire Cyd Charisse, they'd take me home to meet Mom.

June Allyson

#15. The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

Franz Grillparzer