Umanoff Quotes & Sayings

Shouldn't we be presenting an alternative to the prevailing culture rather than simply mimicking it? What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement? — Philip Yancey

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver. — Paulo Freire

One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by come chance manage to evade the result of their folly. — W. Somerset Maugham

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor. — Robert De Niro

The gods grow jealous of too much contentment anywhere, and they show their displeasure all of a sudden. — R.K. Narayan

I've never had vanilla sex before. There's a lot to be said for it. But then, maybe it's because it's with you. — E.L. James

Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity. — Jonathan Lynn

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot. — Moon Bloodgood