Umru Sample Quotes & Sayings

When I was a teenager, I met a comedian who I admired, and he was very rude to me. That's why when people come up to me I try not to be rude. I don't want to name who he is, but it really put me off watching his stuff since. — Stephen Merchant

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs. — Buzz Aldrin

There's no Saints; everyone lies. Everybody betrays everybody sooner or later too. The quicker you get that through your head, the better."
From "Hostages — Erik Hansen

I have a visual imagination. — Sylvia Plath

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all. — John Lancaster Spalding

We are fortified by exemplary lives, especially those who have earned the right to be respected by their character, sacrifice, patience, and ability to press on in spite of hardship, injustice, pain, and failure. Our heroes do not have to be perfect. They must, however be courageous, authentic, clear-minded, and determined to endure no matter the sacrifice or cost. We need heroes of integrity and consistency, admirable men and women we can admire, not because they exemplify a quick burst of bravery, but because they represent the stuff of greatness and stay at it to the end. — Charles R. Swindoll

1. Insects and fungi are not the real cause of plant diseases but only attack unsuitable
varieties or crops imperfectly grown. Their true role is that of censors for pointing
out the crops that are improperly nourished and so keeping our agriculture up to the
mark. In other words, the pests must be looked upon as Nature's professors of
agriculture: as an integral portion of any rational system of farming.
2. The policy of protecting crops from pests by means of sprays, powders, and so
forth is unscientific and unsound as, even when successful, such procedure merely
preserves the unfit and obscures the real problem -- how to grow healthy crops." (An Agricultural Testament) — Albert Howard

No. You said I looked "okay," which is petty much the same thing as saying, "Well, at least your nipples are covered. — Jenny Lawson

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence. — Tom Shales

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV. — Bill Watterson

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality. — Stanley Kubrick

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude. — Aimee Bender

Teach, and you shall receive. — Robert T. Kiyosaki