Old Arkansas Sayings

#1. At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

Adolf Loos

#2. Implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto)

Stephan A. Hoeller

#3. I'm into the whole skincare thing.

Jason Flemyng

#4. Why can no one here think of anything but chocolates?

Joanne Harris

#5. People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.

Narendra Modi

#6. Certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

Marie De Gournay

#7. I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues.

Koko Taylor

#8. Is that the only way?" Tom asked her. "Vik and I tried net-sending with a thought interface during Programming once, but I couldn't concentrate on just one thing at a time."

Vik nodded. "His programming questions were always like, 'Vik, how do steak boobs function?

S.J. Kincaid

#9. The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

Jimmy Carter

#11. I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

Mack Brown

#12. I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

Tyra Banks

#13. That shouldn't have happened," she says, throwing back her shoulders in a stance as stiff as a statue's.
"What? The kiss or you likin' it so much?

Simone Elkeles

#14. When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

Billy Bob Thornton

#15. I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Quentin Tarantino

#16. Packed tight like a case of celery, only much darker than that. They were all against her, she could see. So many were there against her that a light slap from each one of them would have beat her to death. She felt them pelting her with dirty thoughts.

Zora Neale Hurston

#17. The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Rebecca West