Red Dirt Sayings

#1. Oklahoma holds ancient power within its red dirt,

P.C. Cast

#2. But that's the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You can leave East Texas, for Houston, for the Metroplex, for the Commonwealth, for New York, or Bonn or Tokyo or Kowloon; but you can never quite leave it behind.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#3. [Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

Robert Anton Wilson

#4. Now here I am, living in the land of tall pine trees and red dirt hills

Nancy B. Brewer

#5. Vibrant red dirt stretched as far as the eye could see.

O.G. Gough

#6. We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt.

Esmeralda Santiago

#7. Tammy dips her pickles in mustard and red dirt and everyone knows why," she whispered as if someone might overhear.

Valenciya Lyons

#8. No man but Emerson would have considered walking across the fields in full evening kit, much less expect me to trail my red satin skirts and lace ruffles through the dirt; but Emerson is unique. When he behaves irrationally it is necessary to be firm with him. He

Elizabeth Peters

#9. If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Audrey Hepburn

#10. Even in death, a good man would not deceive.

Publilius Syrus

#11. When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.

Beck

#12. She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt than before. Owing, like everything else about these girls, to the fertility of rats.

Kathy Acker

#13. Hope died hard, and the lie was easier to bear.

Kim Harrison

#14. Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Olympia Brown

#15. A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Patrick O'Brian

#17. It pulled out of the dirt lot, kicking up a rooster-tail of dust behind it. The taillights dwindled away to red points down Highway 63, and the Nebraska nightwind began to pull the hanging dust apart.

Stephen King

#18. Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

Jodi Picoult

#19. I don't trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don't believe in white wine; I insist on color.

Charles Bowden

#20. If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Pietro Aretino

#21. I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties ...

Salvador Dali

#22. I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

Lindsay Duncan