Southern Facts Quotes

#1. There's no such thing as gratitude in politics.

Graham Greene

#2. Her face looked like the bottom of a dried up creek bed after a drought,

Carolyn Brown

#3. The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.

Cary McNeal

#4. This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.

Studs Terkel

#6. 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

Bjorn Lomborg

#7. My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

Amanda Filipacchi

#8. No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

Henry Miller

#9. Touche.
What does that mean? Jasper raises his eyebrows quizzically.
It means you're right.
Jasper rolls his eyes. Of course I'm touche. I'm always touche.

Jessica Brody

#10. Outside of a French accent and maybe Italian, Able thought the sexiest accent had to be a soft, sophisticated Southern belle accent.

Adam W. Jones

#11. One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.

Anna Julia Cooper

#12. That's cold, Ems. You know you're supposed to save your lunches for me."
"And like I told you last time, my lunches want to see other people.

Melyssa Winchester

#13. People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

Gordie Howe

#14. Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

Daniel Kahneman