"You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character."

-- Walton Goggins

#Character Quotes #Southern Quotes

“We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..”
“Life means that I can live to see tomorrow.”
“I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.”
“Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.”
“Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.”
“Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.”

Source : "Tributes to French New Wave Master Jacques Rivette, Dead at 87" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. January 29, 2016.
“The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 12, 2016

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