At any public relations luncheon, the quality of the food is inversely related to the quality of the information.
- Earl Ubell
Law of Historical Causation: "It seemed like the thing to do at the time."
- Michael Uhlmann
When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have any recourse to any other.
- Michael Uhlmann
It’s a control freak thing. I wouldn’t let you understand.
- S. H. Underwood
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
- John Updike
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
- John Updike
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
- John Updike
I’m in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?
- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
There is nothing so deadly as not to hold up to people the opportunity to do great and wonderful things, if we wish to stimulate them in an active way.
- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Humor is the sense of the Absurd, which is despair refusing to take itself seriously.
- Arland Ussher
I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
- Peter Ustinov
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
- Peter Ustinov
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
- Peter Ustinov
The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.
- Peter Ustinov
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