College Initiative Quotes

#1. Once the tears started she didn't know how to stop them. Words and tears - they were the twin gauges of her mental health that took over when she lost control, one drying up, the other oozing from her without consent. She

Sonali Dev

#2. I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.

Omar Sharif

#3. For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here.
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College

Eve Ensler

#4. How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!

Robertson Davies

#5. Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

Marya Mannes

#6. MOTHER:
Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day.
JIM:
I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me.

Ray Bradbury

#7. When negative feelings move upon you, reflect, and recognize the danger of feeding those feelings and keeping them alive.

Bryant McGill

#8. I'll keep this necklace forever," said Samara, "as long as Jade and I can keep you forever too.

Roxanne Snopek

#9. New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Lewis Mumford

#10. There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

Guillermo Del Toro

#11. Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Douglas Adams

#12. We need to substitute 'trier' for failure. The word 'fail' is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure.

Anup Kochhar

#13. Emotions form pure, profound bonds
Emotions may blind us but they bind us.

Balroop Singh

#14. Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness.

Katy Perry

#15. But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Michael Vick healthy in the pocket, as a pocket passer, puts the fear of Doug Flutie in me. Michael Vick running around with all his legs (healthy) puts the fear of God.

Michael Irvin