Upjohn Institute Quotes & Sayings

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity. — Peter Ustinov

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak. — Marya Hornbacher

The hopelessness of everything I was trying to occupy myself with was at last glaringly crystal clear. But — Claire-Louise Bennett

The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns ... it is safe to predict that ... such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods — Ralph Linton

Life is more fun when you stop caring what other people think. — Blake Mycoskie

When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day. — Adam Rapp

You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player. — Sid Waddell

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. — Winston Churchill

the gods play no
favorites. — Charles Bukowski

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself. — Clarence H. Burns

I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?" — Chris Rock

As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way. — Carrie Underwood

attempting to block progress. — Judy Blume

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing. — Ruth Carter Stapleton

A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel. — Karen Traviss