Umbras Notes Quotes & Sayings

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species. — Andrew H. Knoll

If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet. — Gordon Moore

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had. — Carly Simon

He bought her six dresses, and I brought her god-damned cat back from the dead, so who loves her more?! — Stephen King

Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn't we give ourselves permission to thrive? — Mandy Hale

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be. — Caroline Kennedy

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes ... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know ... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists. — John Sebastian

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes. — Roberto Burle Marx

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. — Toby Young

How did she do that? How did she make him feel weak and strong? Thrilled and terrified? He couldn't find a way to return what she'd given him. He didn't have the gift she did with words. All he could do was take her hand and kiss it, and bring it to his heart ... — Veronica Rossi

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me. — Kerry Washington