Uppermiddle Quotes

#1. The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
- pg. 41

William S. Burroughs

#2. Sometimes life begins like a bad dream and ends up like a kid's fairytale. The kind our
grandmothers used to tell us about sitting next to a fireplace, with their white braids shining under
the fire's light. They knew that even in an era like ours, there is nothing wrong with dreaming..

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#3. Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#4. Being in my mom's skin, feeling what she'd felt those years before. It was the sudden realization that my dying granny, who had been distant and alien to me, was my mom's mom.

Hugh Howey

#5. It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

John McCain

#6. I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

Robert Fulghum

#7. We shall become, or we shall overcome.

Anthony Liccione

#8. Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Will Self

#9. Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. You really have to humble yourself and take your ass whippings to understand that you can learn something from somebody

Dominick Cruz

#11. When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

Anna Quindlen

#12. It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

Truman Capote