Top 10 Favorite Newfie Sayings

#1. Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is a coming-of-age novel about Ruth Ann (Bone) Boatwright and a difficult childhood made even harder by her violent and predatory stepfather.

Nancy Pearl

Favorite Newfie Sayings #21176
#2. It doesn't matter if you're human, or a shape shifter, women always get the bad end of the bargain.

Mari Arden

Favorite Newfie Sayings #126996
#3. Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.
Information is control.

Joan Didion

Favorite Newfie Sayings #362179
#4. One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Wallace Stegner

Favorite Newfie Sayings #433032
#5. I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Favorite Newfie Sayings #532005
#6. Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.

Conan Stevens

Favorite Newfie Sayings #690630
#7. All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

Lyman Abbott

Favorite Newfie Sayings #988749
#8. I don't know how to put it, but I just can't get it through my head that here and now is really here and now. Or that I am really me. It doesn't quite hit home. It's always this way. Only much later on does it ever come together. For the last ten years, it's been like this.

Haruki Murakami

Favorite Newfie Sayings #1385628
#9. A man by the truth is a house by the sea: He has a clear range of vision and a very fresh air!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Favorite Newfie Sayings #1528949
#10. When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

George McGovern

Favorite Newfie Sayings #1552476

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