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Tennessee's Quotes & Sayings

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The show is over. The monkey's dead! — Tennessee Williams

Now there are many Shaftoes - mostly in Tennessee - but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler. — Neal Stephenson

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

Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it. — 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

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. — Tennessee Williams

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. — 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

PARNELL AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, TENNESSEE — Max Brooks

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof ... — Tennessee Williams

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

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. — Tennessee Williams

I'm not good. I don't know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody's good. — Tennessee Williams

If I could just give myself to the steady peace of the rain. That lovely steady peace. — Tennessee Williams

And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before! — Tennessee Williams

We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears ... — Tennessee Williams

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there. — Tennessee Williams

The absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee. — George Strait

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

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others. — Tennessee Williams

It's almost impossible for anybody to believe that they're not loved by someone they believe they love. But honey, I love nobody. — Tennessee Williams

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing — Tennessee Williams

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type. — Tennessee Williams

It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace. — Tennessee Williams

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II — Tennessee Williams

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to. — Lucy Hale

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it. — 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

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'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. — Lee Majors

This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky. — Tennessee Williams

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. — Tennessee Williams

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else? — Tennessee Williams

It's not the impression you make, it's the impression you leave.

-A Tennessee woman remembering her Old Southern grandmother — Maryln Schwartz

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write. — Tennessee Williams

When homosexuals were repressed, you got Tennessee Williams. Today's tolerance got you Hilton Perez. — Lenny Bruce

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me ... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart — Tennessee Williams

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee — George Strait

Let's go down and swim in that liquid moonlight. — Tennessee Williams

I've been accused of having a death wish but I think it's life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever. — Tennessee Williams

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it. — Tennessee Williams

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. — Tennessee Williams

Human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven. — Tennessee Williams

There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine. — Tennessee Williams

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams. — John Guare

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! — Tennessee Williams

It's no tragedy, Freckles. Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are. — Tennessee Williams

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that. — Kelsea Ballerini

It's interesting, isn't it? ... the chandelier ... it reminds me of mushroom soup. — Tennessee Williams

What's talent but the ability to get away with something? — Tennessee Williams

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

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

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

Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes. — Gary Danielson

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

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business. — Kenny Chesney

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. — Tennessee Williams

The reading room for suckas," Dr. Tennessee says. "The back stacks where all the good shit hiding. — Daniel Jose Older