Southern Ohio Sayings

#1. 'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

Donald Ray Pollock

#2. I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

Donald Ray Pollock

#3. Breathed was the combination of flower and weed, of the overgrown and the mowed. It was Appalachian country, as only Southern Ohio can be, and it was beautiful as a sunbeam in waist-high grass.

Tiffany McDaniel

#4. A damp, gray sky covered southern Ohio like the skin of a corpse.

Donald Ray Pollock

#5. If you don't like the weather in southern Ohio, just wait fifteen minutes!!!".

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#6. At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

Michael Dirda

#7. Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

Robert Pollard

#8. No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#9. And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.

Jacques Derrida

#10. He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass
in a neighbor's open field.
He's decided this is the place
for you and him to meet again.

Kristen Henderson

#11. I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

Penelope Lively

#12. Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.

Khalil Gibran

#13. Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

Chris Farley

#14. I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.

Jill Soloway

#15. Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

Joyce Meyer

#16. My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose.

Brad Wenstrup