Tennessee Quotes
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Tennessee Quotes & Sayings
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Now there are many Shaftoes - mostly in Tennessee - but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler.
— Neal Stephenson
Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.
— Albert Sidney Johnston
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
— Tennessee Williams
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.
— Tennessee Williams
Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves.
— Tennessee Williams
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
— Tennessee Williams
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
— Tennessee Williams
To be free is to have achieved your life.
— Tennessee Williams
She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon.
— Tennessee Williams
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
— Tennessee Williams
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— Max Brooks
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
— Tennessee Williams
...the human animal is a selfish beast...
— Tennessee Williams
I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.
— Kelsea Ballerini
If I could just give myself to the steady peace of the rain. That lovely steady peace.
— Tennessee Williams
Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
— Tennessee Williams
We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears ...
— Tennessee Williams
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
— Tennessee Williams
Savannah is a ... lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets ... There are legendary scenes ... to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.
— Rosemary Daniell
Puttin' on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn't make you country; Like puttin' on a ball gown & glass heels won't make me Cinderella.
— Kellie Elmore
In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.
— Howard Baker
And should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her ...
— Kellie Elmore
You can't cheat the public for long.
— Tennessee Ernie Ford
On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
— John Jay Hooker
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.
— Marty Stuart
Big Daddy: Ignorance - of morality - is a comfort.
— Tennessee Williams
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
— Tennessee Williams
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
— Tennessee Williams
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing
— Tennessee Williams
The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
— Tennessee Williams
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
— Tennessee Williams
Some single men stop drinking when they git married and others start!
— Tennessee Williams
Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.
— Gary Danielson
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
— Tennessee Williams
Love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow ...
— Tennessee Williams
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
— Tennessee Williams
Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
— Tennessee Williams
Of coherency, I usually attempt it.
— Tennessee Williams
Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
— Tennessee Williams
Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego.
— Tennessee Williams
All good art is an indiscretion.
— Tennessee Williams
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
— Valerie June
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
— Tennessee Williams
He would die early, since nothing so fair could decline by common degrees in a faded season.
— Tennessee Williams
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
— Tennessee Williams
Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
— Tennessee Williams
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
— Tennessee Williams
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
— Ann Patchett
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
— Flannery O'Connor
You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished ...
— Tennessee Williams
I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.
— Tennessee Williams
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
— Tennessee Williams
Everybody is nothing until you love them.
— Tennessee Williams
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
— Hank Williams Jr.
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
— Tennessee Williams
His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man.
— Tennessee Williams
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
— Tennessee Williams
The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.
— Flannery O'Connor
We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
— Tennessee Williams
I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
— Tennessee Williams
Come on, indulge yourself. You got nothing to lose that won't be lost.
— Tennessee Williams
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
— Tennessee Williams
Men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.
— Tennessee Celeste Claflin
He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
— Tennessee Williams
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
— Tennessee Williams
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
— Tennessee Williams
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
— Tennessee Williams
Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.
— William Shakespeare
I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip...
— Tennessee Williams
Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!
— Tennessee Williams
Things have a way of turning out so badly.
— Tennessee Williams
Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.
— Dan Fogelberg
There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
— Tennessee Williams
Sometimes - there's God - so quickly!
— Tennessee Williams
Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!
— Tennessee Williams
Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster thanbroken down. — Tennessee Williams
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
— Tennessee Williams
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
— Tennessee Williams
A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.
— Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
— Gloria Swanson
He always entered the house as though he were entering it with the intention of tearing it down from inside
— Tennessee Williams
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
— Tennessee Williams
He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.
— Tennessee Williams
There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.
— Lindsay Hartley
I know all about the tyranny of women.
— Tennessee Williams
We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.
— Marsha Blackburn
I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
— Tennessee Williams
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light ...
— Tennessee Williams
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
— Kiran Desai
A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
— Tennessee Williams
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
— Lamar Alexander
It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature
— Tennessee Williams
