Provost Quotes

#1. Every epic collapse, the provost believed, could be traced back to a single moment - a chance meeting, a bad decision, an indiscreet glance.

Dan Brown

#2. [My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.

Nicolas Provost

#3. By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we are enabled through these axioms to banish continuity, which is so difficult to fix precisely, from the logical structure of geometry.

Hermann Weyl

#4. Roses are red, violets are blue, if I get you in bed, it would be really cool.

Lauren Oliver

#5. It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Steve Brown

#6. The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. If you say you can't, you won't!
The only thing holding you back from success is yourself.

Jody Provost

#8. When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.

Nouman Ali Khan

#9. If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

James Richardson

#10. Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. All myths have a basis in fact

Samaire Provost

#12. Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

Nicolas Provost

#13. Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life.

Nicolas Provost

#14. Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.

Condoleezza Rice