How to Overthrow the
How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. Edward Abbey
Front Porches
Tommy told Sal about
Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk, Sal said. Dean Koontz
Hillary’s trying to appear
Hillary’s trying to appear downhome. Earlier today she was sitting on the front porch of a general store whittling a pantsuit. David Letterman
A British porch is
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol’ American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where … Read more
Everything in New Orleans
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all … Read more
Go out on the
Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name’s above the fold, you know you’re not going to have a good day. Bert Lance
Edward Abbey said you
Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, … Read more
I went to the
I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people’s front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was … Read more
I will never forget
I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and … Read more
Our campaign was not
Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington — it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. …This is your victory. Barack Obama