“If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.” IfsStoriesChanceMouths Author:Emeril Lagasse
“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.” WorldWayYearsBookHardHandsCareTodayRememberThreeNextChanceExistenceTakenPoetReaderSkillsMouthsTownsLuckOne WayReviewsRomeThree YearsSmall TownFellowshipPrintedOld DaysLuck And SkillPrinted Books Author:Randall Jarrell
“I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.” NeedsStoriesChanceMorningSeaTasteMouthsRiversFishesNewspapersBoatLakesFishingEvery MorningFisherman Author:Ed Zern
“We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'” IfsSaidProblemNextChanceCitiesMouthsTragedyBrandingChances AreBombingOklahomaBrandedOklahoma City Author:Mick Cornett