Freshers Reception Quotes

#1. The oppressed, subaltern, therefore, cannot speak through another and cannot articulate on their own.]

Anonymous

#2. No soul remembered is ever really gone.

Mitch Albom

#3. I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

Jane D. Hull

#4. Time, it seemed, was not our enemy after all. It was just air and space and hours. Anything worth having was able to withstand it.

Courtney Cole

#5. To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers

Alain Badiou

#6. I believe that anyone can be what they want to be; it just comes down to hard work.

Kiesza

#7. I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

Jack Dee

#8. He was a thin, elegant-looking man with precise symmetrical features and the hushed, disapproving manner of a senior librarian.

Alastair Reynolds

#9. I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

Peter Coyote

#10. There are certain things in 'Twilight' ... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.

Kristen Stewart

#11. I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

Pam Ferris

#12. Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late 20th century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you will find that they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London.

William Dalrymple