Famous Alumni Quotes

#1. I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

Dick Van Dyke

#2. She attempted to deal with her terror in a most ineffective and magical mode-a mode that I have seen many patients use: she attempted to elude death by refusing to live.

Irvin D. Yalom

#3. Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

#4. The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott

#5. What I want is the general betterment of pets. No-kill is a part of that. I'd like to see that policy enacted at all SPCA-type organizations around the country.

David Duffield

#6. I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

George Foreman

#7. The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes. He could see the structures of them through their skin. The bony residue of their lives.

Colum McCann

#8. To live in the shadow of another person ... to desire to be adored as that person is ... is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

Faye Hall

#9. Numerous examples have convinced me that God ultimately saves him whose motive is pure.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.

Mary Sage Nguyen