Maine Town Sayings

#1. I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Patrick Dempsey

#2. Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

Lauren Oliver

#3. The fat woman's expression implied that she would go crazy on the spot if anybody did any more thinking.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Voters want a fraud they can believe in.

Will Durst

#5. This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.

Jimmy Fallon

#6. I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.

Elizabeth Strout

#7. If you don't like something ...
Don't accept it but leave it alone!
Don't ever hurt it!
There's never a reason to ABUSE
anything!
not even a tree!

Timothy Pina

#8. The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.

Paul Singer

#9. I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.

George J. Mitchell

#10. To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what ?Surely not pleasure.

Valerie Solanas

#11. Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

William, Saroyan

#12. Dr. Seuss provided ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Clifton Fadiman