Upnote Quotes & Sayings

I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together. — Jack Zipes

Economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear. — Max Tegmark

My religion of life is always to be cheerful. — George Meredith

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out. — Zora Neale Hurston

It's the future that we must always look to, in the hope that next time we will make the better choice. — J. Elizabeth Hill

Oi!'
I drop in on him the first chance I get.
Round three. There's one coming on the inside and I start paddling for it. He starts for it too, telling me, 'It's mine, sunshine.'
'Get stuffed.'
As I feel the surge take my board, he grins across at me. 'Split it?'
So we split the peak, he goes left and I go right, and I know, like me, he's thinking, How good is this? — Kirsty Eagar

In 1970, a superior Court judge issues an order forcing the desegregation of Los Angeles schools. The judge survives an assassination attempt and loses his job in the next election. — James Frey

Some people live life asking for forgiveness instead of permission. — Alecia Whitaker

Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness. — Kemi Sogunle