Universos Alternos Quotes & Sayings

What did it sound like ... having someone call your name across a crowded school yard? How did it feel to turn to the sound of your name, to see some smiling face or waving hand and know it was for you and you alone?
- Staggerlee — Jacqueline Woodson

I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place. — Joe Goddard

Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best. — Albert Hadley

John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born. — Christopher Pike

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart. — Meg Ryan

One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. — Ban Ki-moon

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. — W. Somerset Maugham

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic. — Chuck Close

So more than a century ago, everyone agreed: No more indentured servitude. But today's employers have conspired to bring it back with H-1B visas, then they strut around like they're Martin Luther King by invoking the magical word "immigration." Immigration covers a multitude of sins because we have all agreed to pretend mass immigration from the Third World is the same thing as black civil rights. In the 1960s, leftists were at least self-destructive: They wanted to damage the country in ways that would hurt them, their parents, and their kids. The New Left has found a way to be self-righteous only after checking to make sure they've completely exempted themselves from the destruction they're wreaking. Liberals will pull every string imaginable to prevent their own kids from having to compete with immigrants - and then demand cheap employees for themselves. The middle class and lower class take it in the shorts - and the elites get to feel noble. — Ann Coulter

Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action. — Reuel Howe

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids. — Nicole Kidman

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are - but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are. — Esther Hicks

Lions aren't used to other creatures staring them down. It's a good tactic for life too; even if you're terrified inside, stare it in the eye. — Boyd Varty