Honoree Quotes

#1. If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then the guest who volunteers has to cover the whole thing. A guest can't volunteer -all- of the guests to pay for the host/honoree.

Carolyn Hax

#2. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the center of your heart filled with love.

Amit Ray

#3. Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#4. A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or John fucking Coltrane himself climbing up into the sky on a staircase made of sixteenth notes, it's all the same. If it takes you there, it's good.

Tad Williams

#5. My hope is that what has gone before is only the introductory chapter of our love story. There are more memories to be made. ~ Ian

Willow Aster

#6. Sometimes placing our belief in something bigger than ourselves helps us get to a point where we can be enough on our own, magic or no magic.

Sara Raasch

#7. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

Brandon Routh

#8. If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes "longer" is "never.

Honoree Corder

#9. Commitment eats impossible for breakfast.

Honoree Corder

#10. The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Joshua Jackson

#11. Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#12. It occurred to me with a certain uncomfortable forcefulness that I didn't know the first thing about the only planet I was ever going to live on.

Bill Bryson

#13. On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light? Or just patches of grey?

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#14. Engineering circumstances means you put systems, rituals, rules and/or intentions in place to thwart you in the event you try to procrastinate, delay or even fail to perform the tasks you know would ensure your success.

Honoree Corder

#15. On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth

Anthony Doerr

#16. Ants are a terrific analogy for the route to success. They will go over, under, around, or through whatever gets in their way. They never stop moving, and neither should you. Take the word impossible and turn it into I'm Possible.

Honoree Corder

#17. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.

James Madison

#18. If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.

Michio Kushi