Small Town Reporter Quotes

#1. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

Terry Pratchett

#2. If looks could kill, she'd be a dead woman.

Leslie Meier

#3. Leaders being born vs. made is a bit of a separate issue. The research on this issue is fairly conclusive: 50/50. We have innate predispositions that affect who we are and what we do (nature) but we can learn and develop and grow (nurture).

Dave Ulrich

#4. My profession has helped me to grow up.

Ziyi Zhang

#5. The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing.

Brad Alan Lewis

#6. I don't come with the wheelchair. The wheelchair comes with me.

Max DePree

#7. A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

Joseph Smith Jr.

#8. Remember the golden apple-trees;
O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop
one by one,
for they fall exhausted, numb, blind
but in certain ecstasy,
for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

H.D.

#9. Lucy had no complaints about her dinner. Anything was fine with her as long as she didn't have to cook it.

Leslie Meier

#10. A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl's immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.

Leslie Meier

#11. What if pretending is interfering with the person you're meant to be?" he said.

Robin Bielman

#12. When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making.

Matisyahu

#13. It's a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills.

Leslie Meier

#14. Nik waited a few seconds for a response and, when nothing came, he moved in front of the girls, so Georgia couldn't escape. 'You must really hate that guy.

Julie Fison

#15. As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel.

Leslie Meier

#16. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#17. Murder was apparently too common-place in the big city to attract much notice.
Poor Luther, thought Lucy, as she headed back to the hotel. Even in death he was only a big fish in a small pond.

Leslie Meier

#18. Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

Paula Abdul

#19. What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.

Arnold Friberg

#20. My woods...the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires.

Robert Frost

#21. I've been to livelier funerals," grumbled Herb.

Leslie Meier