"Southerners smile more than other Americans."

-- John Shelton Reed

#Southerner Quotes

“A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.”

Source : "Questions for John Lahr". www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.
“The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.”

Source : Rick Hansen, Joan Laub (1994). “Going the distance: 7 steps to personal change”
“Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
“Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.”
“On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!”
“I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.”
“Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?”
“My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.”

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