Admissions Committee Quotes

#1. When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, 'Because I'm going to change the world some day. And I'm giving you the chance to say, We knew her when.

Sarah Thebarge

#2. A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Jim Jarmusch

#3. Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

Bill Vaughan

#4. We're not doing anything today, obviously," Adam said. "Do you want to hang out?" Blue looked around for a couch. It would be easier to hang out with a couch.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. We have not found any smoking guns.

Hans Blix

#6. what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 3:1)

Stephen A. Gammon

#7. Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

George Orwell

#8. You might be a redneck if you go to a Tupperware party for a haircut.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. She'd entered a city made entirely of leather and paper. Celaena put a hand against her heart.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

Fernando Pessoa

#11. Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

Peter Drucker

#12. When you see honey in the bush and there are no sign of bees, flee!! for its all but a trap

Ikechukwu Izuakor

#13. When we're picking someone who we want to spend a lot of time with, even perhaps for the rest of our lives, we generally try to pick someone who likes to do the things we like to do.

Greg Behrendt

#14. I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they're not reachable.

Kevin Hart

#15. I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Boris Johnson

#16. Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.

David Souter