Uhrmacher Family Quotes & Sayings

Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart's content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin. — Neal Stephenson

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there. — Niall Ferguson

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit. — Lisa Whelchel

What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?
Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,
With matchless impudence they style a wife,
The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;
A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,
A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;
Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,
But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard. — Alexander Pope

Don't worry, sweetheart. I've got lots of toys for us to play with. But that doesn't mean the idea of having a policeman helpless in his own cuffs doesn't still amuse me. — Kim Dare

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict. — John Landgraf

I play chess, but my past is checkered,
The mic and I are like staff and shepherd. — Ka

Everything you do with a horse is a dance, — Buck Brannaman

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired. — J. Oswald Sanders

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved. — Jim Crace

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all! — Robert Orben

Then in the darkness and purity of the meadows he began to feel that the world had many secrets, that they were shattering even to glimpse or sense, and that they were not necessarily unpleasant. In certain states of light he could see, he could begin to sense, things most miraculous indeed. Although it seemed self-serving, he concluded nonetheless, after a lifetime of adhering to the diffuse principles of a science he did not know, that there was life after death, that the dead rose into a mischievous world of pure light, that something most mysterious lay beyond the the enfolding darkness, something wonderful. — Mark Helprin

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality. — Gordon B. Hinckley

To women silence gives their proper grace. — Sophocles