Historymakers Academic Fellowship Quotes

#1. There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

Tom Berenger

#2. Forgiveness is the ultimate liberator of our mind, body, and spirit.

Asa Don Brown

#3. I'm very comfortable in the storm.

Kron Gracie

#4. For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.

William S. Burroughs

#5. They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

Sally Rand

#6. Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.

Fay Weldon

#7. Boy, dont you dare leave me. Stay with me forever and ever. Sleep with me, my love. Kiss me. touch my body, feel me.

Matt Trevitz

#8. One must learn to live with the living before one can learn to live with the dead.

Irvin D. Yalom

#9. You are in love with Sandy?" What's it like?"
"Hhhmmm." He sighed happily. "It's real nice.

S.E. Hinton

#10. Tell you what, why don't we go ask her brothers what they think of your claim?"
"I'd rather beat you to a pulp.

Jennifer McKeithen

#11. When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

Mark Frauenfelder