Southern Louisiana Quotes

#1. Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ... the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

Ned Sublette

#2. Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.

Nina Easton

#3. Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

Kevyn Aucoin

#4. He shook his head. No, we do. I may be a little buzzed and really fucking horny, but I also need you to know that I love you. I should have said it the first time months ago, and I will keep saying it every damn day. I love you more than every single star in the Louisiana sky above us.

Magan Vernon

#5. The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

Alexis Denisof

#6. Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

William Ernest Henley

#7. The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

J. C. Watts

#8. In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW.

Drake

#9. To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

George Washington

#10. As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Hattie McDaniel

#11. I have a weakness for smart men.

Deborah Harkness

#12. I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.

Spike Lee

#13. You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.

Artie Shaw

#14. She trusted him
She believed him
until
the day
he barged into the territory he wasn't supposed to invade.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#15. You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.

Lucille Ball

#16. Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.

Anne Perry

#18. There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

Jurgen Moltmann

#19. You want to pass for a normal person? Don't tiptoe into people's bedrooms at night! Ever!'
'I can be creepy in front of you.'
'No, you can't! You need to go now.'
'I'll go watch the parentals.

Justine Larbalestier