Robert Updegraff Quotes

#1. He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux

#2. Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

Ned Vizzini

#3. The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.

Robert Updegraff

#4. Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

Robert Updegraff

#5. To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Robert Updegraff

#6. Modeling isn't for the faint of heart, you have to really want it and work hard for it.

Liris Crosse

#7. No! Be weak! Give up! You can't do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.

Tom Hodgkinson

#8. Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

Chuck Grassley

#9. Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

Lord Kelvin

#10. It is in the nature of love to be disproportionate with both rewards and retributions.

Manu Joseph

#11. Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.

William Penn

#12. - Did you really save the world ? ...
- Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.

Jim Butcher

#13. If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

Voltaire

#14. Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?

Lev Grossman

#15. The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

Robert Updegraff

#16. I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

Lee Child

#17. People who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.

N. T. Wright