Uptempo 96 Quotes

#1. Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#2. Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. Watching him walk away, she considered his laconic attitude and reluctant decency, and she thought she might be crushing on him just a little. Two

Thea Harrison

#4. Or a Moonie festival or something.

Neal Stephenson

#5. Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!

Bob Goff

#6. You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

Jon Foreman

#7. (now that tea was no longer acceptable),

David McCullough

#8. Truths that wake
To perish never

William Wordsworth

#9. Do what is right, and do it now.

Atul Gawande

#10. When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

Joan Didion

#11. Does anyone truly understand females? ... Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#12. The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

Joseph Stiglitz