Umbreiras Quotes

#1. You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

Billy Crystal

#2. Nothing was true but the fatigue of life and the eternal disappointment.

Patricia Highsmith

#3. After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

Giles Matthey

#4. Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I'm just not good with alcohol. And I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much.

Ava Gardner

#5. Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Jodi Picoult

#6. That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.

Nassau William Senior

#7. If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

Anne Roiphe

#9. Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, What kind of legacy will you leave?

Dillon Burroughs

#10. If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. You see, you and I are the only people here who walk quite quietly and peaceably on solid ground. The nuns walk in heaven and your husband
in darkness.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. It's time for the IRA to go out of business.

Mitchell Reiss

#13. The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

Jerry Brown

#14. Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

Christian Morgenstern

#15. The greatest defect we have in our prayers and in all that happens to us, particularly in that which concerns tribulations, is our lack of confidence ... Faith is great or little according to the measure of our confidence.

Francis De Sales