Uca Camp Sayings

#1. The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

Chris Hardwick

#2. As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Germaine Greer

#3. Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#4. If someone comes into your house and does fked-up things to your kids and your wife, you're going to be capable of things you never imagined. Because it's in there. It might be lying dormant, but it's there.

Ronald Perelman

#5. I want to be where there are out and out pagans.

Francis Xavier

#6. Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

Paul Weyrich

#7. Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.

David Wilmot

#8. Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

Mark Buchanan

#9. Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

William Styron

#10. Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

Daniel Radcliffe

#11. I would steal horses
for you, if there were any left

Sherman Alexie

#12. I love bright words, words up and singing early;
Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;
Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;
I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,
Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.

Elinor Wylie

#13. When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Peter Ackroyd

#14. All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah