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“She's my Tallahassee lassie down in FLA.”
Source : Song: Tallahassee Lassie
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“Sometimes the tasks we take on seem virtually impossible. But amazingly, when we harness the incredible power of the subconscious in our lives, we can accomplish whatever we set out to do, no matter what obstacles we have to overcome.”
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“We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.”
Source : Abelard, Heloise “Abelard letters”, Lulu.com
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“The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.”
Source : Shelby Foote (2011). “The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville”, p.815, Vintage
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“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”
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“Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text.”
Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013. 
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“The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.”
Source : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”
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“J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houstons newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.”
