Udren Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Some people are immune to good advice. — Saul

Some syllables are swords. — Henry Vaughan

I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc. — Henry Rollins

TMI? Too Much Information. Its just easier to say 'TMI'. I used to say 'don't go there', but that's lame. — Michael Scott

the Archimedean point where the lever can be applied." At — Barbara W. Tuchman

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with. — Christian Louboutin

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. — Marge Piercy

An Apostle can never come to himself in such a way that he becomes conscious of his apostolic calling as a factor in the development of his life. Apostolic calling is a paradoxical factor, which from first to last in his life stands paradoxically outside his personal identity with himself as the definite person he is. — Soren Kierkegaard

One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in the society, the more similar one's Times became to one's peers'. — Neal Stephenson

When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you. — Chungliang Al Huang

I am Gabriel, the messenger, the teller of astonishing truths. — Sonya Hartnett

People don't really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots.
They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don't live up to their snap judgments. — Lilith Saintcrow

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust. — Daniel Mendelsohn