"There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus."

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Source : Joshilyn Jackson (2010). “Backseat Saints”, p.227, Hachette UK

Joshilyn Jackson

#Jesus Quotes #School Quotes #Alabama Quotes

“When you win, shoot-outs are a lot of fun. They're not as fun when you lose.”
“Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.”

Source : Song: Young Turks
“If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.”
“When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.”
“There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid than people who are all, "I'm all about games, and narrative and meaning, and I write a blog just to tell you about how I analyze all these things." Those people have the same hit rate as your general forum poster. So that's given me a cynical response to that whole community, which is just that, "Guys, are you sure you're qualified to do this?" And that sounds asshole-ish, and mean and snarky, but that's just how I'm feeling right now.”
“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”
“Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.”
“Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.”

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