Upper World 1934 Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to pin down what makes Weiss' music so distinctive. Perhaps it's that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career. — Carlo Wolff

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the foolish and untaught, till naught but fiction feeds the many, and the fruit of falsehood carries in its current the giddy to the grave; but one touch with the finger of his love, yes, one ray of glory from the upper world, or one word from the mouth of the Savior, from the bosom of eternity, strikes it all into insignificance, and blots it forever from the mind. (Messenger and Advocate Oct 1934 pp 14-16) — Oliver Cowdery

I saw my success in the mirror and shattered it, in order to set it free. — Lionel Suggs

nobody told me the second I gave my life to him, he would start tilling up the very deep places of my heart, revealing the darkest, nastiest things. Nor was I told about the stuff that would come to the surface so that I could deal with it and find my way to joy, through the cross. No one really preached that message. — Matt Chandler

In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a large jar of these insects, and made every teacher take one and hold it while I was speaking. If any one dropped the insect, I stopped till he picked it up. This was at that time a great innovation, and excited much laughter and derision. There can be no true progress in the teaching of natural science until such methods become general. — Louis Agassiz

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments. — Alexis Denisof

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. — Nick Hornby

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing. — Pascal Bruckner

If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap. — Walter Schloss

I've just had enough of people misrepresenting me. Get to know me and see who I am. — Kim Kardashian