Top 25 John Berendt Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About John Berendt

#1. When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

Arthur Dobrin

#2. Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

John Berendt

#3. The South is one big drag show, honey [...].

John Berendt

#4. I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.

Linda Blair

#5. If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?

John Berendt

#6. The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#7. Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

John Berendt

#8. Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast.

John Berendt

#9. But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.

John Berendt

#10. Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years.

John Berendt

#11. By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.

John Berendt

#12. Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.

John Berendt

#13. Twelve-gauge shotguns are unpleasant for shooters weighing less than 160 pounds.

John S. Farnam

#14. Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

John Berendt

#15. She was a marvel. She did exactly as she pleased all her life, God bless her.

John Berendt

#16. This town is like Gone with the Wind on mescaline!" From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

John Berendt

#17. The best brothels in Bangkok seem to have a weakness for Greek names,' [Liz] commented acidly and got out. Harry looked up at a large neon sign proclaiming that the motel was called Olympussy.

Jo Nesbo

#18. If there were not a bridge from Venice to Europe, Europe would be an island

John Berendt

#19. If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.

John Berendt

#20. You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

Hans Zimmer