quotes about Upbraid

“There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.”

“To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.”

“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.”

“I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?”

Source : Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.45, Infobase Publishing

“No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.”

“If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.”

“I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.”

“It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.130, Oxford University Press

“The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.285, Vintage

“Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.”

Source : "Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard, 2000.