"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:..."
- 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..."
- Bill Bryson
"The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh."
- Kelsey Brickl
"It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature"
- Tennessee Williams