Tupelo Quotes

#1. In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

Salman Rushdie

#2. I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

Elton John

#3. There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

Bobby Heenan

#4. No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

Nick Cave

#5. Amanda: I guess if you can have faith you can't just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don't.

Eric Kripke

#6. I may not have been born captain of this boat, but I was born to rock it.

Tupelo Hassman

#7. Drinking is a fast-forward button; it makes you feel close to a person so quickly.

Alison Rosen

#8. Which statements are true according to the passage?
A) Science, governments, and your doctor should be trusted.
B) 'Comforting her deep into the night' is a euphemism for sneaking candy.
C) The ugliest phrase used in this passage is 'female.'
D) Bad things really do come in threes.

Tupelo Hassman

#9. It's an old copy and it's starting to fall apart, but I hold on to my Handbook because nothing else makes promises like that around here, promises with these words burning inside them: honor, duty, and try.

Tupelo Hassman

#10. The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

Tina Brown

#11. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. The most terrible and tremendous saying in the world, Jane ... because we are all afraid of truth and afraid of freedom ... that's why we murdered Jesus.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. But if you just got your first car and you're feeling around for the seat lever and find "Desolation Angels" instead, the beautiful people on the cover so lazily entwined, well, that's the type of experience that can turn your head around.

Tupelo Hassman

#13. Hmm," Tate said. "That's it. I love how insatiable you are. You can't help yourself from taking what you want, even when you know you shouldn't. Like when you take me. I love how you hold me down and go fucking wild. Greedy to the very end." "Jesus,

Ella Frank

#14. Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.

Kelly DiPucchio

#15. Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. In general, it's not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they're looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc ...

Geoffrey Wood

#17. Where you're born is sometimes all that separates a sure thing from a long shot.

Tupelo Hassman

#18. Take this one to the bank: birds are hatched from eggs and are always egg-shaped. Maybe there's no escaping the shape that molds you, no getting around how you got started even if you do break out.

Tupelo Hassman

#19. You are responsible for what you give your attention to.

T. B. Joshua