Uslarer Quotes & Sayings

Certain tight parentheses have been opened and allowed to spill their still active contents. — Vladimir Nabokov

In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you. — Lensey Namioka

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in. — Herman Melville

The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies. — Howard Zinn

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted. — Abby Sunderland

But I remember another image from Earth: the rich dark green grass that grew in graveyards. — Joe Haldeman

The past is always tense, the future perfect. — Zadie Smith

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. — Ben Stein

(S)cents connects us to a past we can't always see, that seems lost but can so easily be conjured up and found. — M.J. Rose

That's what most people don't realize; that's why one out of every two marriages fail. Because people go into them with hearts in their eyes and forever on their lips and no concept whatsoever of what that truly means. Of course it's going to be hard work. Of course you are going to get angry and upset and wonder why, out of everyone in the world entire world, you decided to fall in love with an idiot who farts in his sleep and eats like a pig and can't ever be assed to pick up his own dirty underwear off the fucking floor. — Lielabell

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck. — Francis Bacon

Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity?
Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces. — Penelope Gilliatt

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film. — Laurie Holden