Umpteen Quotes

#1. I would never give up on the girl I love, even if it took umpteen years.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#2. Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

Kirk Hammett

#3. People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

Edwin Morgan

#4. Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

Clive James

#5. I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.

Lauren Bacall

#6. Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters. None of them go hungry to bed at night.

Audre Lorde

#7. There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Edward Hoagland

#8. The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

Jim Lee

#9. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself,

Robert M. Pirsig

#10. That's the thing. You think you've got balls, but when it comes down to it, you find out you'd do anything to save yourself.

Kirsty Eagar

#11. I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

John Daly

#12. I underestimated your laziness."
"It's pronounced intelligence, Kirk.

Abria Mattina

#13. Yes, Jobs could be overbearing. But as Guy Kawasaki (who worked for Steve Jobs twice) put it: If you ask an employee of Apple why they put up with the challenges of working there, they will tell you: because Apple enables you to do the best work of your career.

Anonymous

#14. Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

Shunryu Suzuki

#15. How can you not tweet? How else will people know what you ate for breakfast or what you are listening to on Spotify or what your gamerscore is? Ridiculous. Not tweeting is not an option. I am a dolt for even suggesting it.

Aisha Tyler

#16. Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?

Al Siebert

#17. We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Kim Elizabeth

#18. Love has no number.

Anthony Liccione

#19. Without work, without direction, his thoughts were like a hamster on a wheel, circling and dancing with no destination and no possibility of arrival. With

Val McDermid

#20. ...as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is really not true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return.

Elizabeth Haydon

#21. As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Desmond Tutu

#22. I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

William Shatner

#23. A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

Neil MacGregor