Southern Hostess Quotes

#1. My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

A. J. Jacobs

#2. What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him. They kissed as if in a fever ... they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies.

Paullina Simons

#4. I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

Diane Ackerman

#5. No matter the sphere of life your portion is, you can be successful in it together with the Lord, if you have learned to recognize His time.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

Barack Obama

#7. Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

Kevin O'Leary

#8. An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.

Tom Hanks

#9. I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still relatively healthy and of sound mind.

Lisa J. Shultz

#10. Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs," Moss said. "But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard's power's like a fir tree, maybe, great and tall and grand, but it'll blow right down in a storm. Nothing kills a blackberry bramble.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Jilly Cooper

#12. Keep your heart close, dear Nathaniel, for nothing will bring you comfort should you leave it with another

Freedom Matthews

#13. [My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Elizabeth Bowen

#14. You wouldn't know him if I told you the name. HIPPIAS: But I know right now he's an ignoramus.

Plato

#15. Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.

James Carlos Blake