Monroeville Quotes

#1. Harper Lee was legendarily private. I've never known such a private woman in my life. It's no surprise that she left Monroeville, a gossipy little southern town where everybody wants to know everybody's business, and went to the most anonymous city in America.

Wayne Flynt

#2. There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

#3. I am the instrument of my own destruction.

Veronica Roth

#4. We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.

Callie Khouri

#5. American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

Rokia Traore

#6. It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the life of me I can't think of anything clever and original
at least, not at this moment.

Jerome K. Jerome

#7. I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.

Emma Stone

#8. And he was right, I know we can't. We shouldn't, we ought not to, but we will. It won't be the last time. He won't say no to me. I was thinking about it on the way home, and that's the thing I like most about it, having power over someone. That's the intoxicating thing.

Paula Hawkins

#9. God speaks to us by speaking through us, and any meaning we arrive at in this life is composed of the irreducible details of the life that is around us at any moment. "I think there is no light in the world / but the world," writes George Oppen. "And I think there is light.

Christian Wiman

#10. I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

Jhonen Vasquez

#11. Let the experiment be made.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?

Ellen Hopkins

#13. He would pray ... for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

Dean Koontz

#14. When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

Ben Harper

#15. the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.

Gail Godwin

#16. In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

Honus Wagner