Emerson College Quotes

#1. I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

Spalding Gray

#2. There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,
kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,
the rootsof all things are in man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Monica Johnson

#4. Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

Mark Victor Hansen

#5. Every life ought to contain both a turn and a return.

E. M. Forster

#6. The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all.
Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there,
deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.

Aaron Hoopes

#10. There was not a sous-cusinier in Rouen, who could not have told you that Bon-Bon was a man of genius. His very cat knew it, and forebore to whisk her tail in the presence of the man of genius.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime ... What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

Rajneesh

#13. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.

Kim Cattrall

#14. Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Whatever! Go save a dolphin or something!"
He whirled around. "It's a whale, Alex, a whale! That's what I'm interested in saving."
I threw up my arms. "What's wrong with saving dolphins?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..

Louis Armstrong

#18. It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

Bobby Orr

#20. One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. The scenes and events were beautiful color spots in her memory.

Jean Craighead George

#22. We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. Insides the moment Lotho stated his condition. Daemon kissed like he was staking a claim, but he already had me - all of me. My heart. My soul. My whole being.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#24. Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

Ralph Waldo Emerson