Upstreet Quotes & Sayings

I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way. — Dan Jenkins

I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty. — Bryant McGill

Confidence is nothing more than believing in yourself, and believing in yourself is about doing the things you once didn't believe you could do — Steven Aitchison

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves. — Willie Nelson

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things. — James Baldwin

If you can manipulate people, you can make them do anything. — M.F. Moonzajer

Glimpse of him. Once things got hot, I tended pretty much to my own knittin. I glanced around just once and saw him upstreet beyond them Swedes under the Bijou's marquee, " Mr. Keene said. "He wasn't wearing a clown suit or nothing like that. He was dressed in a pair of farmer's biballs and a cotton shirt underneath. But his face was covered with that white greasepaint they use, and he had a big red clown smile painted on. Also had these tufts of fake hair, you know. Orange. Sorta comical. — Stephen King

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art. — Claude Simon

They went Indian file. First came the scouts, clever, graceful, quiet. They had rifles. Next came the antitank gunner, clumsy and dense, warning Germans away with a Colt .45 automatic in one hand and a trench knife in the other.
Last came Billy Pilgrim, empty-handed, bleakly ready for death. Billy was preposterous - six feet and three inches tall, with a chest and shoulders like a box of kitchen matches. He had no helmet, no overcoat, no weapon, and no boots. On his feet were cheap, low-cut civilian shoes which he had bought for his father's funeral. Billy had lost a heel, which made him bob up-and-down, up-and-down. The involuntary dancing, up-and-down, up-and-down, made his hip joints sore. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it's also necessary - and you know, to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people's eyes and not just our own. — Barack Obama

They sound funny, and he realizes that these guys are not guys nor fellas. They are blokes. Chaps. Mates. They are Brits. — Anonymous

It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit. — Harold J. Laski

The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States. — John E. Rankin