Southern Illinois Sayings

#1. I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid.

Meghan Daum

#2. When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

Kenny Troutt

#3. My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

Laurie Metcalf

#4. Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

Jerry Costello

#5. Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.

Jerry Costello

#6. Heroes don't always wear capes, badges, or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.

Andrea Randall

#7. One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?

Milton Berle

#8. Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Quentin Crisp

#9. Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Hesiod

#10. When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#11. When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.

Jessica Stroup

#12. Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

John Kessel