Umblest Quotes & Sayings

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. — Brian Blessed

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting. — Bradley Whitford

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn. — Jean-Georges Noverre

He told me how he had first met her during the war and then lost her and won her back, and about their marriage and then about something tragic that had happened to them at St-Raphael about a year ago. This first version that he told me of Zelda . and a French naval aviator falling in love was truly a sad story and I believe it was a true story. Later he told me other versions of it as though trying them for use in a novel, but none was as sad as this first one and I always believed the first one, although any of them might have been true. They were better told each time; but they never hurt you the same way the first one did. — Ernest Hemingway,

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea. — Saib Tabrizi

Thou wouldst not enslave man by a miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others. — Dalai Lama

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead. — Mira Grant

Everyone who rejected you was preparing you for those who will accept you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That's how I hold your voice.
I am scrap wood thrown in your fire,
and quickly reduced to smoke. — Rumi

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

Nice one, Catpiss,' he says. That's not my real name. My name is actually Kantkiss. Kantkiss Neverclean. — The Harvard Lampoon

In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are. — Julia Cameron

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. — Charles Darwin

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going ... My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode. — Charles Dickens