Ueber Quotes & Sayings

The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there! — David Berg

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. — Evangeline Lilly

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him. — Paul Dano

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none. — Thomas Hardy

'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time. — Jorge Hernandez

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception. — Rush Limbaugh

The destructible must be burned out of it, or begin to be burned out of it, before it can partake of eternal life. When that is all burnt away and gone, then it has eternal life. Or rather, when the fire of eternal life has possessed a man, then the destructible is gone utterly, and he is pure. Many a man's work must be burned, that by that very burning he may be saved - so as by fire. — George MacDonald

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell. — Michael Sheen

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense. — Andy Roddick

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth

When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind. — Peter Mayhew

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.' — John C. Reilly

In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork. — Sam Worthington

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity. — Eugene Ionesco

Is it important that the rent of
land be retained as a source of
government revenue. Some persons
who could make excellent use of
land would be unable to raise money
for the purchase price. Collecting
rent annually provides access to
land for persons with limited
access to credit. — Franco Modigliani

Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do. — Anthony Michael Hall

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years. — Maggie Stiefvater

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz