Tennessee Quotes

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.

~ Wallace Stevens

I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.

~ Bill Hicks

...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her...

~ Kellie Elmore

The little town of Dayton - not far from where Katz and I now sat, as it happened - was the scene of the famous Scopes trial in 1925, when the state prosecuted a schoolteacher named John Thomas Scopes for rashly promulgating Darwinian hogwash. As nearly everyone knows, Clarence Darrow, for the defense, roundly humiliated William Jennings Bryan, for the prosecution, but what most people don't realize is that Darrow lost the case. Scopes was convicted, and the law wasn't overturned in Tennessee until 1967. And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn't so much that they may be descended from apes as overtaken by them.

~ Bill Bryson

The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.

~ Kelsey Brickl

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