Boston Conference Quotes

#1. I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

Zubin Mehta

#2. The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Iris Murdoch

#3. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Ann Brashares

#4. I also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She's an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.

Rose McIver

#5. It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set of stars and maps.

Katherine Rundell

#6. The student of politics must study the soul.

Aristotle.

#7. A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

William Feather

#8. A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl's immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.

Leslie Meier

#9. Trying to improve your online reputation during a crisis is like trying to eat healthy food during a heart attack.

Andy Beal

#10. The truth doesn't make you vulnerable - concealing it does.

Ann McMan

#11. The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.

Billy Graham

#12. They also,' Skaffen-Amtiskaw said, 'refuse to acknowledge machine sentience fully; they exploit proto-conscious computers and claim only human subjective experience has any intrinsic value; carbon fascists.

Iain M. Banks

#13. The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Godfried Danneels

#14. Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Laurence Fox