Pell Quotes

#1. I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.

Diane Farr

#2. We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money.

John Kline

#3. When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#4. It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

Gwen Moore

#5. Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

Jim Cooper

#6. Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#7. I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.

Francesca Woodman

#8. Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

Julia Cameron

#9. Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

Ed Pastor

#10. In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

Eva Longoria

#11. The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

John Conyers

#12. It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.

Ralph Maxwell

#13. Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

Ric Keller

#14. I am committing suicide by cigarette, I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn't. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks. My brand is Pall Mall. The authentic suicides ask for Pall Malls. The dilettantes ask for Pell Mells.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

Fannie Hurst

#16. The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

Norm Coleman

#17. Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Christopher Dodd

#18. Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

James Surowiecki

#19. A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell.

Victor Hugo

#20. In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Friedrich Schiller

#21. Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

Charles Vest

#22. Too often fantasy is not a rich elaboration of life designed to enhance our existence, rather it is our pell-mell escape from life with the intent of exiting this existence. And the most imaginative fantasy of all is to somehow think that I can do that in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.

Denny Rehberg

#24. So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.

Denny Rehberg

#25. What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.

Cory Booker

#26. Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.

Hank Johnson

#27. I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

Ric Keller

#28. At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.

Paula Pell

#29. I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.

Pell James

#30. I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

Paula Pell

#31. I'm really excited about my TV show. I wrote it with my best friend.

Pell James

#32. I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

George Pell

#33. You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.

Pell James

#34. I think, as a woman, you have to really make sure that you're taking care of yourself and make sure that you're covered and you have enough material written for you.

Paula Pell

#35. Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

George Pell

#36. I believe we do a disservice to God and probably to the pro-life cause if God is never mentioned in our pro-life arguments.

George Cardinal Pell

#37. Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

George Pell

#38. I was always a bit of a class clown.

Paula Pell

#39. I get totally creeped out by other people's movies.

Pell James

#40. My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

Claiborne Pell

#41. People who leave Washington do so by way of the box ... ballet or coffin.

Claiborne Pell

#42. It's like a dream job to work with your friends.

Pell James

#43. Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy.

Pell James

#44. You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

Pell James

#45. I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

Paula Pell

#46. The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

George Pell

#47. The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Clay Pell

#48. Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

Oliver Pell

#49. Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.

Paula Pell

#50. Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

George Pell

#51. The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

#52. In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

Claiborne Pell