Uplighter Quotes & Sayings

Having been fucked up by my family and community, I'll never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and "neurosis" begins. But as a gay person I know I'm a vital element in our civilization. — Edward Field

Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching. — Fannie Barrier Williams

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician. — Blythe Danner

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own. — J. Paul Getty

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge. — Margaret Atwood

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. — Benjamin Disraeli

If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands. — Stephenie Meyer

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go. — Ally Condie

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us. — Emily Saliers

When you freely express, you are the total style. — Bruce Lee

Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping. — Bill Rancic

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. — Nigel Lawson

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up. — David Nicholls

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. — Will Self