Umusic Quotes & Sayings

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved ... that day, you die as a writer. — Dwight V. Swain

I had no illusions at all that I was beautiful, pretty or even able to attract the right sort of attention from men — Dorothy Koomson

In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes. — Robert G. Wilmers

What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers? — Greg Egan

There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise. — Elizabeth Bishop

This isn't a drill, sir!"
"What d'you mean this isn't a drill?" It couldn't be! It wasn't possible. Things like that only happen in blockbuster sci-fi movies, not in real life!
"It's not a drill, sir! This is the real thing! You'd better get up here right away sir! Sir? Sir!"
But Commander Ortez was already on his way -- and he was running.
When he eventually made his theatrical entrance on the bridge, nothing had happened yet. He wheezed.
"Well?" He appealed, ready for anything. After that, this had better not be a drill. Or else. — Christina Engela

Our prison is constructed from a lifetime of Shoulds, the world of choices we've unwittingly agreed to, — Elle Luna

If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet. — Jay Leno

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power. — Salman Rushdie

Slowly, we drew away from the kiss. His hands remained on my back and at my hip. I wasn't ready to let go of him either.
"Are we going to talk about that?" I asked.
"Do we need to?"
"Most people would."
"What would most people say? — Devon Monk

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. — David Hockney