Pollner Lecture Quotes

#1. I was just walking out of school from cheer practice and she walks right up to me and says "Come with me if you want to live." I laughed so hard at her I almost peed my pants. I mean who says that? It was pretty clear she wasn't from this planet. Everyone knows who the Terminator is.

Shelly Crane

#2. Burn yourself with the fire of love to enjoy the fiery, burning beauty of love.

Debasish Mridha

#3. In the darkness time, let your passion and spirit lead you to make a better decision.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. In the rolling sea of new state, new school, new dangers everywere, Daniel was the only rock she had to hold on to.And he was adout to leave her? ...

Lauren Kate

#5. If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

Erma Bombeck

#6. I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

Chanda Kochhar

#7. Perhaps God's so deeply ashamed of us, of something we did, that he's wishing himself to forget.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#8. Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

Andrew Lakey

#9. Go now, and die in what way seems best to you.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

Chinua Achebe

#11. We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Amanda Harlech

#12. A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.

Bob Schieffer

#13. Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.

Andrew Hacker

#14. Evil. Why does your God allow it? He doesn't keep evil from happening: all he does is punish the evildoer with eternal flames. Why doesn't he prevent it? Do you have an answer?

Jaume Cabre