Placement Committee Quotes

#1. This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

Peter Watts

#2. Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

Clint Eastwood

#3. One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.

Patricia Rae

#4. Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

William Wake

#5. The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

Chelsea Handler

#7. every failure is a step to success!

William Whewell

#8. Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

George Eliot

#9. In his self-offering on the Cross, Jesus, as it were, brings all the sin of the world deep within the love of God and wipes it away.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. The moon's not big enough to wish on. Nothing is.

Heather Demetrios

#11. Whatever replaces the fast food industry should be regional, diverse, authentic, unpredictable, sustainable, profitable
and humble. It should know its limits.

Eric Schlosser