Uhumc Quotes

#1. A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker.
"We talked about this before."
"A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know."
"Suppose you can't see it?"
"That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

Gary D. Schmidt

#2. In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#3. Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

Big Joe Turner

#4. Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Joseph Joubert

#5. Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#6. People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

Ron Reagan

#7. [I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.

Vera Brittain

#8. Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

Ronnie Van Zant

#11. All I saw was one black cat, an insultingly paranoid type who shrank off as I drew near.

Anne Tyler

#12. I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

Patina Miller

#13. The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Yann Martel

#14. My brothers are retro-refugees in the new exile of the asylum-seekers' hostel.

Lidija Dimkovska