List of Topics starting with [U]

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; ...

In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from ...

Pride also has a bill! Get ready to pay it!

Out of the 6.8 billion people in the world, these girls wanted their lives to end, wanted negative things to happen to them. In my ...

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or ...

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in ...

Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment ...

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others ...

You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.

A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am.

Isn't that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something ... Incomplete information ... Endless possibilities ... When you don't know much about ...

Models of style: the swearword, the telegram, the epitaph.

If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

People don't shake a dirty hand particularly when it is empty

No job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

Be happy while you have breathe.

When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.

Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? ...

'My Fair Godmother's movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'

We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that the Book of ...

The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.?

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great ...

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always ...

They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not when they're in ...

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural ...

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are ...

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end.

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

I'm sorry, anal sex," Beavers continued, embarrassed by her slip of the tongue.

Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.

Jenna, once again, your powers of Awesome amaze me.""It's a skill," she agreed, nodding somberly.

The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My ...

Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.

If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when ...

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.

What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that big movies are going to come out and then you see them ...

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the ...

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.

The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long ...

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of ...

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the ...

There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.

UFOs are back in the news, and it is high time we took a serious look at the phenomenon. (Actually the time is ten past ...

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, ...

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

S'rato, he is my rock. Ever the same and ever lovely. He has seen death yet he remains unchanged by it all. I could take ...

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it ... and we always know when it will happen.

I'm meant to hold this man's hand. I'm meant to kiss him.

The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words ...

Simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well,

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then ...

I adhere to the law of chastity because I don't believe in pushing women. That's what it means to be a man. I don't hurt ...

We worship life on Usonia. Nature... The moon, the sun, the stars, the rivers.

Why does this feel so right?" I murmured past the tightness in my throat."Why do you keep fighting this feeling?""Because I'm not supposed to want ...

Allow love, to illuminate the unknown pathways that are destined - to be traveled.

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound ...

We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.

I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be ...

Your divine sagacity is your life's status symbol.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were ...

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the skies.

Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you know, the guns.

I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians ...

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions ...

Food in Chicago is the best.

Here we are not just referring to the behavioral outcomes of brain activity, such as movement and speech. We are including the intimate contents of ...

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

And here I am, bravely risking the fallout of wounding your fragile, pudding-like soul - because real, forever friends don't let each other wear ugly ...

If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are ...

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

So then you're free?' 'Yes, I'm free,' said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

Gentlemen living after me! Since you are reading this little letter of mine, I have already departed from you and gone on to learn the ...

I'm not particularly prolific.

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty ...

Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary ...

We're staying for the moment. ut if you do anything i find the least bit suspicious, I'll kill you. Fair Warning?

Emperor Erishi had let his bladder go. The guards dropped their swords.

Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach ...

Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.