Top 13 Best Commencement Speeches Quotes
#1. I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice.
Koren Zailckas
#2. I could never hurt you because hurting you is ... hurting me.
-Gage
Shanora Williams
#3. So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#4. If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
Irvin S. Cobb
#6. Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
Alwin Nikolais
#7. I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies ... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.
Max Winkler
#8. Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Garry Trudeau
#9. There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.
David Foster Wallace
#10. My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.
Tracy Morgan
#11. Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
Ai Weiwei
#12. President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'
Jimmy Fallon
#13. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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