Upi's Quotes

#1. Insistent opening bark of the UPI's Helen Thomas:

Rick Perlstein

#2. Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

Franz Liszt

#3. Love and laughter are two of the most important universal cancer treatments on the planet. Overdose on them.

Tanya Masse

#4. I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

Neil Sheehan

#5. I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

Henri Matisse

#7. I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#8. First, we would reposition UPI by bringing it into the 21st century with new technology. And second would be to better utilize its assets, like the library and archives, which have terrific value.

Leon Charney

#9. I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

Bahman Ghobadi

#10. In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Jeremy Rifkin

#11. Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

Ralph Merkle

#12. it's like I have two kinds of students now. Kids who write their homework and thought papers on their phones. Kids who just sound like they do.

James Browning

#13. I think the big news organizations, the UPI, AP, Reuters, and the 'Sunday Times' - do take their training seriously. And I think they do only send experienced correspondents with proper insurance and proper training. And they don't force them to go where they don't want to go.

Anne Sebba

#14. And then there was one nonsense phrase he said near constant. Sounded like 'Cat hoodoo fat hag hen!

David Bain

#15. Ethan and I drove around Silicon Valley today looking at various company parking lots to see whose workers are working on a Sunday. He says that's the surest way to tell which company to invest in. If the techies aren't grinding, the stock ain't climbing.

Douglas Coupland

#16. Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

Jay Woodman