Minnesota Nice Sayings

#1. I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

Al Franken

#2. He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn't inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that "spirit," however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences - which, though he might suppress them, he couldn't altogether erase from memory.

Sol Luckman

#3. I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

Howard Stern

#4. Money is attracted to him whose mind has been deliberately prepared to attract it,

Napoleon Hill

#5. I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

Seann William Scott

#6. For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full ...

Jonathan Swift

#7. I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that - gone.

Jenny Han

#8. What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles that we talked about in the Chris Langan chapter. Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Richard Leakey