Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Conrad Aiken

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

E. O. Wilson

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

Doris Lessing

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Donna Tartt

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Damon Albarn

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this

Anne Rivers Siddons

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Barry Hannah

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

We really have no idea what is going on now in southern China.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Scott Spencer

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

Thaddeus Stevens

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Margaret Sanger

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

Michael Stipe

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

Mary Steenburgen

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

Paula Deen

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

Lance Bass

I was always the Southern gentleman.

John Shelton Reed

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

John Shelton Reed

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

Nora Roberts

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.