Academy Quotes - Page 3

• Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

  Ray Charles

  Years, Honor, Music Is My Life

  19 Copy quote

• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Law, Ninety

  8 Copy quote

• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  Bela Lugosi

  Art, Years, Degrees

  85 Copy quote

• There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

  Charles Babbage

  Ambition, Numbers, Lists

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.29

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Impact, Environment, Academic

  9 Copy quote

• I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

  Angela Lansbury

  Mean, Awards, Age

  16 Copy quote

• Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress. He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long.

  Richelle Mead

  Wall, Couple, Spring

  Richelle Mead (2016). “Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

  Richelle Mead

  Vampire, Arms, Dimitri

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.135, Penguin

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

  Harold Bloom

  World, Knaves, Charlatans

  "Criticism in Society". Interview with Imre Salusinski, 1987.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Two, Voice

  Interview with Imre Salusinski in "Criticism in Society", 1987.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  14 Copy quote

• In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

  Edmund Burke

  Prejudice, Grove, Ends

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 115.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

  Halle Berry

  Doors, Tonight, Oscars

  Halle Berry's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 24, 2002.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

  Chris Rock

  Awards, Rocks, Hollywood

  "For Better Or Worse, Chris Rock Made The Oscars As Black As He Possibly Could". "All Things Considered" with Eric Deggans, www.npr.org. February 29, 2016.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.

  Yony Leyser

  Mom, Art, School

  "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within". Interview with Paul Hawkins, www.outsideleft.com. March 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rose Hathaway: "Was he right?” Dimitri Belikov: "Who?” Rose Hathaway: "Victor…he said it couldn't have worked. The necklace.” Dimitri Belikov: "What do you mean?” Rose Hathaway: "The spell. Victor said you had to want me…to care about me…for it to work. Did you? Did you want me?” Dimitri Belikov: "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish…we could be together.” (Vampire Academy)

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Rose, Together

  5 Copy quote

• I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,' Liz said, and immediately I knew that she was right. It was exactly like the library at the Gallagher Academy, from the position of the fireplace to the tall windows that overlooked the grounds. 'How do you know?' Zach asked. Liz looked totally insulted. 'Because...uh...library.' 'Okay.' Zach threw up his hands. 'Point taken.

  Ally Carter

  Wall, Taken, Hands

  7 Copy quote

• Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

  Ally Carter

  Shock Therapy, Precaution, Gallagher

  "Out of Sight, Out of Time". Book by Ally Carter, March 13, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

  Lili Taylor

  Awards, Decision, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

  Ally Carter

  Electric Shock, Faults, Bed

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.103, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide serious injury that has occured! Malachi has only one ear and is now wearing one of those joke rubber ones - it's very noticeable but people are too polite to say!

  David Sneddon

  Thinking, People, Cover Ups

  4 Copy quote

• I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

  Julianne Moore

  Husband, Mean, Winning

  23 Copy quote

• So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue to use it everywhere all over the world there. And I think, in a way, nonviolence is our nature. Violence is not really our nature. If violence was our nature, we wouldn't need military academies and martial arts institutes to teach us how to kill and destroy people. We ought to have been born with those instincts. But the fact that we have to learn the art of killing means that it's a learned experience. And we can always unlearn it.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Art, Military, Mean

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source