Quotes About Umor

#1. Black Humor (Umor): a sensation --of the theatrical (and joyless) pointlessness of everything.

Jacques Vache

#2. I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.

Lily James

#3. Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Liz Vassey

#4. You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.

Sarah Hyland

#5. I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.

Larry Fitzgerald

#6. Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#7. Overhead lights flickered on and off.
"It is closing soon," Markus explained.
"Now is what I call tiger time. The great beasts pad about, eyeing one another, trying to make up their minds at last.

Caleb Crain

#8. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Ronald Reagan

#9. My thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

Miriam Makeba

#10. Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

Ismail Haniyeh

#11. The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

Harold Holzer