Campus Quotes - Page 4

• I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

  Catherine Hicks

  Drama, Joy, Dames

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• When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

  Dennis Miller

  Revenge, Character, Kids

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.126, Crown Forum

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• Then Circled by the golden light of God's Presence and His promise, Paul and Sierra walked side by side along the trail that lead tward the campus and on tward their Future

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Light, Promise, Golden

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• I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back." Oh man, what an opening that was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, School, Men

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.27, Penguin

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• I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Goal, Words Of Wisdom

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• The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Long, Bars, Looking Forward

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

  Nick Burd

  Thinking, Drifting Off, Somewhere Else

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• I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she'd just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Class, Guy, Way

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.35, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wall, Spring, Rain

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.148, e-artnow

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• Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Homework, Said

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.299, Penguin

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• Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Common Decency, Barbarians

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• When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, School, College

  "Work Together: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

  Sloane Crosley

  Art, School, Good Day

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• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

  Angela Davis

  Country, California, Community

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• Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

  Maureen Dowd

  Volleyball, Eye, Garden

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• I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.

  Will Ferrell

  Crazy, College, Shy

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• There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

  Brian Greene

  Yearbook, College, Rooms

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  Gary Johnson

  Directors, Students, Enjoy

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

  Scotty McCreery

  Men, Acting, Minutes

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• Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Boards, Needs

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• Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

  Saul Perlmutter

  Space, People, Important

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• So let me get this straight," he said. "After everything that's happened on this campus-the murder, the stalking, the kidnapping-you want to go up into the woods-by yourself, in the middle of the night, based on something a ghost in a dream told you-and dig a hole?" Well when he put it that way.

  Kate Brian

  Dream, Night, Want

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• It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

  Kathleen Hanna

  College, Issues, Unexpected

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• The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

  Mitch Albom

  New York, Years, Cities

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.14, Broadway Books

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