Quotes About Uberwald

#1. And who else could I send? Only Vimes could go to Uberwald.

Terry Pratchett

#2. A math teacher's least favorite thing to hear from a student is "I get the concept, but I couldn't do the problems." Though the student doesn't know it, this is shorthand for "I don't get the concept.

Jordan Ellenberg

#3. Since the day she died, I've felt that Lucy was only mine to memorialize and that if I faltered, I'd be letting her down in the worst kind of way. The realization that she wasn't just mine comes as a painful relief.

Julie Murphy

#4. MINDFUL MOMENT: When I'm hungry, I eat what I love. When I'm bored, I do something I love. When I'm lonely, I connect with someone I love. When I feel sad, I remember that I am loved.

Michelle May

#5. Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.

Lewis Carroll

#6. By contrast, no one in Alphinland ever demanded a blowjob. But then, no one in Alphinland had a toilet either. Toilets weren't necessary. Why waste time on that kind of routine bodily function when there were giant scorpions invading the castle?

Margaret Atwood

#7. During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.

Isak Dinesen

#8. In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

Andrew Motion

#9. It is the work and not the reward that is precious.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. The Herald Tribune headed the story, "PRESIDENT SAYS PRAYER IS PART OF DEMOCRACY." The implication in such a pronouncement, emanating from the seat of government, is that religious faith is a condition, or even a precondition, of the democratic life.

E.B. White

#11. No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

Burt Ward

#12. I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#13. In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

David Crystal

#14. I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

Stephen Chbosky

#15. There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats