Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes & Sayings

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different. — Carol Plum-Ucci

My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better. — Carol Plum-Ucci

The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so. — Carol Plum-Ucci

There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you ... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe. — Carol Plum-Ucci

When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Love and truth have no correlation. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Sometimes the things you search far and wide for are right under your nose. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You can never see a plant grow, but they do. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Why is it that everyone loves to see the rich person get flushed down the toilet? Why is it people will spend four dollars to buy a magazine just so they can read about some Hollywood star's divorce? Or arrest? Or bad luck? I have no idea what Hollywood crimes have actually been told truthfully, but at least I have the brains to say I don't know. — Carol Plum-Ucci

The line between complete joy and complete terror is often thin. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People love to see you get ahead - so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Perhaps they will remember Chris Creed and they will find their tolerance, their compassion. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's? — Carol Plum-Ucci

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Some doctors say a person who has only had same-sex attractions is, like, a zero. A person who has only had opposite-sex attractions is, like, a ten. He says most people fall between one and nine. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People's lives can look so good on the outside and be so much dark shadow on the inside. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living? — Carol Plum-Ucci

Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic? — Carol Plum-Ucci

It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You can't photograph the hugest mysteries of the universe that really have nothing to do with what shows up before your eyes, under a microscope, through a telescope, in the pages of books. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. — Carol Plum-Ucci

There is justice in an insanely cruel world. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Love covers a myriad of plausibility structures. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit. — Carol Plum-Ucci

No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I don't know if anybody thinks of themselves as bad. We all have excuses. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Problem with the big philosophers is they cared about ideas more than people. Hegel would probably have stepped over a guy trying to slit his wrists outside a bar - to get to all the people he could sit and bullshit with inside. Did you know half of philosophy was first put into words by people shot in the ass? — Carol Plum-Ucci

A person could explode if he had to think too much. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel. — Carol Plum-Ucci

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People create their own little hells. They don't need my help — Carol Plum-Ucci

You're in my personal space, so get out of it. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I don't really think our greatest memories are always great while they're happening. — Carol Plum-Ucci

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck. — Carol Plum-Ucci

He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals and homelss shelters and jails, because those people realize they need help. And do they are able to believe in strange phenomena. Funny how the world is backward. The really comfortable people don't always see much supernaturally, and to the ones who have to struggle, it's, like, breathing in their faces. The first are last ... and the last are first. — Carol Plum-Ucci

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad - I've never changed my mind about that. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. — Carol Plum-Ucci

If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose. — Carol Plum-Ucci

At times there's a razor-thin line between truth and insanity. — Carol Plum-Ucci

If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much. — Carol Plum-Ucci

If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea. — Carol Plum-Ucci