Cum Laude Quotes

#1. I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

Robin Williams

#2. I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby ... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#3. This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Rod Parsley

#4. Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

Patricia Clarkson

#5. I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Alan Greenspan

#6. I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Nigel Kennedy

#7. Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

Anthony Robbins

#9. Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

Immanuel Kant

#10. Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley

Robert B. Parker

#11. It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze.

Joseph Conrad

#12. What is important, what isn't important, and how do you clean yourself from all of the unimportant things. And then you can be content, and feel good with life, which is metaphorically speaking, "walking on water."

Eytan Fox

#13. Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Charlotte Lennox

#14. When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover.

Gary Keller

#15. There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

Jack White

#16. Even now I steal outdoors in the dead of night to sit on the tree swing and watch the shadows breathe in the moonlight.

Debra K. Rodgers

#17. With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

Flip Wilson

#18. Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

John Spratt

#19. I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don't believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it's the end of our species.

Kevin Bacon

#20. You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

Carl White