Hillbilly Noir Quotes

#1. I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

Stephen Hopkins

#2. The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.

Daniel Woodrell

#3. Some people were born just so they could be buried.

Donald Ray Pollock

#4. For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.

Epictetus

#5. The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.

Hans Morgenthau

#6. Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

Daniel Woodrell

#8. I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.

Vanessa Hudgens

#9. Life whispers to you all the time ... from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience ...

Oprah Winfrey

#10. The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Jeremy Bentham

#11. Since when does a queen need an excuse to sing?

Lorene Scafaria