Nyu Alumni Quotes

#1. I thought of writing books myself once. I had the ideas; I even made notes. But I was a doctor, married with children. You can only do one thing well: Flaubert knew that.

Julian Barnes

#2. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare

#3. Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

George Ade

#4. I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

Maurice De Vlaminck

#5. Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#6. Remember to forget yourself

Kamand Kojouri

#7. I have done that', says my memory. I cannot have done that - says my pride and remains unshakeable. Finally - memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Ally Sheedy

#9. Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

Richard Price

#10. No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

Felix Riesenberg

#11. Night climbs its long underground staircase.
It recalls what it has to tell us.

Karen Solie

#12. Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#13. Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.

David Lynch

#14. Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it

Daniel Kahneman

#15. If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.

Andrew Jackson