Udirect Quotes & Sayings

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal. — Jane Austen

Anyway, you know what they say about wolves," said her father. "If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over."
"Who says that?" asked Lucy.
"People. Everybody. You know," said her father, and he went back to practicing his tuba. — Neil Gaiman

R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It — Douglas Adams

There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature. — Olivia De Berardinis

The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me. — Elizabeth Hurley

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team. — Anatoli Boukreev

The single most effective way to make a service as reliable as possible is to make it as simple as possible. Find the simplest solution that meets all the requirements. — Tom Limoncelli

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus. — John Lennon

Patterns repeat themselves in history — Rick Riordan

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses ... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit. — Kip Winger

Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world ... Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster. — Stephen King

To me, characters are at the heart of great literature. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it. — Danny Silk

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style. — Laz Alonso