Umbral Quotes

#1. It's not about saying others are doing it wrong, just that you're doing it differently.

Tara Gentile

#2. Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.

L. Adams Beck

#3. Some days life just wasn't worth the trouble of chewing through the leather straps on the straitjacket.

Katie Maxwell

#4. There's something here that I simply will not let myself look at.

Doris Lessing

#5. Don't you ever feel that way? Like you could do a better job if you rqan the world?'
'Um ... no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare.

Rick Riordan

#6. The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.

Dolly Parton

#8. Fall off your own roof.

Veronica Rossi

#9. The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

#11. Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him?

Irvine Welsh

#12. The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

James Forrestal

#13. The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Tim Jackson