Uncg Quotes & Sayings

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live?
Type faster. — Isaac Asimov

I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. — William Faulkner

Now go put some clothes on. Because if you want me to concentrate, you can't dangle that much naked man in front of me. Vampire or not. — Elizabeth Hunter

I was wary of my sister's cooking, which invariably consisted of a tubular pasta and economy cheese, charred black on the surface, with either tinned tuna or lardy mince lurking beneath the molten crust ... So that evening, in a tiny flat in Tooting, I was pushed into the tiny kitchen where sixteen people sat crammed around a tiny trestle table designed for pasting wallpaper, one of my sister's notorious pasta bakes smouldering in its centre like a meteorite, smelling of toasted cat food. — David Nicholls

What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God. They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible. — Stephen Hawking

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls
the World. — Lord Byron

First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view
until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. — Harper Lee

There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours. — Vironika Tugaleva

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars. — Evel Knievel

When revival comes to the human heart, it's a torrent, it's a cascade, it's a deluge. It's a downpour! — James MacDonald

By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation. — Bernie Siegel

I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone. — Adam Silvera