Underbleacher Quotes & Sayings

To die from 'a draining away of one's strength caused by extreme old age' was in Montaigne's day a 'rare, singular and extraordinary death.' Nowadays we assume it as our right. — Julian Barnes

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Would you trade him in order to undo the past?
That's a question I can't answer. — M. Leighton

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. — Noah Baumbach

Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well. — Yo-Yo Ma

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements. — Jill Lepore

When you are cursed with a bipolar mind racing thoughts are the ones that you find — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I didn't answer. Mr. Dowater had a reputation for deadpan humor, a humor that was strangely similar to the low-level, sarcastic sniper fire offered by the school's underbleacher population of stoners and class-cutters. It didn't really pay to engage it. After — Ethan Canin

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy — Zadie Smith

When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph. — Abbas Kiarostami

No one's ever alone, we have ourselves — Anonymous

The statistical probability of being murdered in Norway was about one in ten thousand. When — Jo Nesbo

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. — Anne O'Hare McCormick

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me. — French Montana

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place. — Walt Disney

Two jobless grown-ups, we spent weeks wandering around our Brooklyn brownstone in socks and pajamas, ignoring the future, strewing unopened mail across tables and sofas, eating ice cream at ten A.M. and taking thick afternoon naps. — Gillian Flynn