Amherst Quotes

#1. In 1996, I entered into pastoral counseling with Pastor David Drake from the Metropolitan Chapel on North Forest Road in East Amherst, New York.

Janet Pfaff

#2. I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

Edmund Phelps

#3. The bulk of the crowd looked like professors and their wives from Amherst. One of the problems, according to a bushy young radical-talking non-student from Boston, was that you had to pay a "registration fee" of two dollars before you got a vote.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

Joseph Stiglitz

#5. Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Harold E. Varmus

#6. When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

Edmund Phelps

#7. I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#8. I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

Adoniram Judson

#9. A very dear friend of mine great actress named Wendy Rich Stetson was very active in the theater department at Amherst and I went to all the plays she was in, and it became very clear to me that what she was doing was something I wanted to be doing.

John Cariani

#10. As I sat on the midnight PVTA bus to Amherst, I scanned the male faces, looking for a potential boyfriend. My standards were high: anyone who looked back at me.

Augusten Burroughs

#11. I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

Paul Engle

#12. I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

#13. Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Joseph Stiglitz

#14. Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

Joseph Stiglitz

#15. As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

Harold E. Varmus

#16. When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

Gary Sloan

#17. I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#18. It was inestimably important for me to look at the lights of Amherst town in the rain, with the wet black tree-skeletons against the limpid streetlights and gray November mist, and then look at the boy beside me and feel all the hurting beauty go flat because he wasn't the right one-not at all.

Sylvia Plath

#19. My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

Joseph Stiglitz

#20. There is a limit to how much you can cut but there is no limit to how much you can earn.

Ramit Sethi

#21. Why be fearful of saying no to someone or of leaving something undone when the most important thing of all was to enjoy life fully?

Paulo Coelho

#22. And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

Thom Yorke

#23. She suspected too late that behind his professional authority and worldly charm, the man she had married was a hopeless weakling: a poor devil made bold by the social weight of his family names.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#24. Man can learn everything if he will but try.

E. M. Forster

#25. There is no other way to know good from evil, right from wrong, unless we have His Word dwelling richly in our heart. It's good for us to spend time in His Word.

John Bevere

#26. You prefer the bed on the opposite wall?"
"I prefer the bookshelf in the lower left corner of the room, and the ceiling fan not to be hanging over my head while I sleep."
"OCD?"
"Feng shui."
"Is it contagious?"
"Hardly anyone gets it.

Devon Monk

#27. The one thing that is very good in life today is death.

Julian Barnes

#28. Jasnah had spoken of her feelings for precisely that reason.

Brandon Sanderson

#29. For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

Mo Yan

#30. Being mindful of our feelings we will get Delighted. The quality of life is in proportion of our capacity to get delighted. The capacity for delight is within our capacity to pay attention to things around us.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#31. No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Marie Corelli

#32. You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell

Ishmael Beah

#33. yet that one thing - the color of their skin - would, in the real world, change everything. Sarai

Laini Taylor

#34. The monster always approaches from the direction you least expect.

Jeffrey Eugenides