S Ullman Quotes & Sayings

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. — Tracey Ullman

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else. — Tracey Ullman

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. — Samuel Ullman

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. — Samuel Ullman

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. — Tracey Ullman

I wouldn't doubt it, Jack said gravely. A roque court, a topiary full of hedge animals out front, what next? A life-sized Uncle Wiggily game behind the equipment shed? He was getting very tired of Mr. Stuart Ullman, but he could see that Ullman wasn't done. Ullman was going to have his say, every last word of it. — Stephen King

Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life. — Samuel Ullman

There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't. — Tracey Ullman

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me. — Tracey Ullman

But you can't stop knowing something, can you? — Ellen Ullman

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on. — Tracey Ullman

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am. — Tracey Ullman

Tracy Ullman, I grew up watching her shows and standup and improv and specials. Bette Midler and Whoopi Goldberg. They inspire me to do it all. I always wanted to do it all; I never wanted to be put in a box. — Bresha Webb

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young. — Samuel Ullman

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old. — Samuel Ullman

Youth is the time for dreams, boy...The trick is, when you get older, not to forget them.

- Captain John Winters — James Ramsey Ullman

The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman

He killed them, Mr. Torrance, and then committed suicide. He murdered the little girls with a hatchet, his wife with a shotgun, and himself the same way. His leg was broken. Undoubtedly so drunk he fell downstairs. Ullman spread his hands and looked at Jack self-righteously. — Stephen King

See, I know my life probably sounds glamorous and all, but trust me, it's not. Living with a bunch of do-gooders comes with some major drawbacks. At the top of the list is the fact that while superheroes are really great at the big things - like thwarting the forces of evil - they really stink at the little things. Like, for example, remembering their kid's birthday.
- Elliott Harkness, age 12 — R.L. Ullman

Jack stood by his shoulder, very much aware of the scent of Ullman's cologne. All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all came into his mind for no reason at all, and he had to clamp his tongue between his teeth to keep in a bray of laughter. — Stephen King

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin. — Tracey Ullman

Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food? — Tracey Ullman

There are never fewer than eight Tracey Ullman characters in any NYC nail salon at any given time. — Tina Fey

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them. — Tracey Ullman

The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself. — Ellen Ullman

I wonder whether I will ever breathe air that is clear of his ghost. — Danielle Younge-Ullman

Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse — Ellen Ullman

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins — Ellen Ullman

I started with her feet. I knelt and kissed them; each toe was soft and strong. — Thomas Ullman

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political. — Tracey Ullman

I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around. — Danielle Younge-Ullman

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America. — Tracey Ullman

There's nothing I won't attempt. — Tracey Ullman

Every character I do is based on someone I know. — Tracey Ullman

Jin rejoins us, and we march on. There are tears streaming down my face now, along with the sweat. They're from the physical pain. They're from all the pain. Sometime since we started across, every last shred of my inner fortification has burned away and i feel everything; all the memories, all of my pushed-down, blocked-out joys and sorrows and regrets lick up and down my insides, matching the searing of my muscles, the agony of a forest burned to the ground, the awfulness of the mother and baby raccoons. I weep and walk and climb and stumble, and my arms and shoulders and abs and back and legs and feet scream. — Danielle Younge-Ullman

As I get older, I just prefer to knit. — Tracey Ullman

I'm fascinated by Bollywood. — Tracey Ullman

WWBD? What would Buffy do? — Cherie Ullman

I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows. — Lennon Parham

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty. — Samuel Ullman

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? — Tracey Ullman

Actions speak louder than words."

Hardly original but judge people by what they do rather than what they say they will do. — Thomas Ullman

If youth only knew, if age only could. — Samuel Ullman

I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person. — Tracey Ullman

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities. — Ellen Ullman

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter. — Tracey Ullman

The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear. — James Ramsey Ullman

An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country. — Tracey Ullman

I love documentaries, I like observing real people. — Tracey Ullman

Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies? — Ellen Ullman

Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it. — James Ramsey Ullman

No returning smile from Ullman. He slipped Jack's application back into a file. The file went into a drawer. The desk top was now completely bare except for a blotter, a telephone, a Tensor lamp, and an in/out basket. Both sides of the in/out were empty, too. — Stephen King

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years. — Tracey Ullman

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last. — Tracey Ullman

I just want to do good work. — Tracey Ullman

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman

Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes. — Ellen Ullman

I've always been a misfit. — Tracey Ullman

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable. — James Ramsey Ullman

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying. — Tracey Ullman

But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?

Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed. — Ellen Ullman

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need. — James Ramsey Ullman

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! — Tracey Ullman

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. — James Ramsey Ullman

There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving. — Tracey Ullman

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes. — Tracey Ullman

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. — Samuel Ullman

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career. — Tracey Ullman

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much. — Tracey Ullman

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. — Tracey Ullman

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers. — Tracey Ullman

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable. — Ellen Ullman

I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them ... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine. — Tracey Ullman

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.' — Tracey Ullman

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock. — Tracey Ullman

I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show. — Matt Groening

A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced. — Tracey Ullman

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting. — Tracey Ullman