Urma Voce Quotes & Sayings

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

And the look on his face when he saw it. Like someone blew a horn and all his walls crumbled. — Rainbow Rowell

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you. — Anthony Bourdain

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once. — Robert Mugabe

Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies. — Jane Rule

Who ever told you a Chinaman was a coloured man? — Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing. — George Ryan

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit. — James Howe

Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date. — Flora Thompson

He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing. — Amy Lane

He flashed a huge smile, one of absolute joy, from a place of no beginning or end. — Patti Smith

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself. — Penn Jillette