Upone Quotes & Sayings

To think creatively, to struggle with an opaque text or confounding idea, to seek connections between periods of history or disciplines of thought, and to search for the precise word or the right rhythm for a single sentence - these are human actions every bit as worthy as the wielding of a hammer, the manipulation of a surgical scalpel, or the making of a courtroom argument. — Roger Lundin

Anything I do with Team Sleep, I'd do with Deftones as well. — Chino Moreno

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences. — Evander Holyfield

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing. — David Byrne

Sometimes when I look at them from a distance, I try and squint my eyes and clear my mind. I peer at them the way a stranger would - without any emotions, just observations. In this large fortress I had created around my heart, the one that let me enter situations easily and leave even more easily, how did they find a cat flap that allowed them to crawl into my soul? — Twinkle Khanna

So in Scotland witches used to raise the wind by dipping a rag in water and beating it thrice on a stone, saying: "I knok this rag upone this stane To raise the wind in the divellis name, It sall not lye till I please againe. — James George Frazer

True premonitions grow in depths where our thoughts never go. And sometimes they make us do things whose meaning we totally misunderstand. — Raymond Radiguet

The kid has no idea he even knows something's wrong — David Foster Wallace

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time. — Jools Holland

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk
in fact, quite the contrary. — Heather King

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point. — Geena Davis