Deb Olin Unferth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

  • I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

  • We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

  • Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.

  • You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

  • Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

  • I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

  • Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.

  • When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

  • I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.