Alumna Quotes

#1. Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.

Jenna Blum

#2. [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Tacitus

#3. If the recently graduated college alumna can't turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we're going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples.

Elaine Dundy

#4. Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'

Bill Dedman

#5. conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna

Sylvia Plath

#6. What's ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn't they?

Danielle Steel

#7. Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

Alex Pareene

#8. People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

Marina Abramovic

#9. Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Maurice Ravel

#10. I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Maya Angelou

#11. They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

John Keats

#12. We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

Lord Byron

#13. Some people steal your oxygen and leave you winded. Some people cut it off completely and you're left suffocated. But other people, the rare ones, pump oxygen into you, just like a breeze fills a wind puppet and gives it the energy to twist and sway.

Katie Kacvinsky

#14. The customer's always right.

Mitch Hedberg

#15. For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Jay S. Walker

#16. There's greatness in him. A magnitude of spirit.

Orson Scott Card

#17. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

Marie Leszczynska