Provosts Quotes

#1. Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

Edmund White

#2. It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

Jiang Zemin

#3. Positive thoughts, positive self-image.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. We're about one hundred times richer than the poorest billion people in the world, and we can do several hundred times more to help them than we can to help others in the rich countries we live in.

William MacAskill

#5. He saw her seldom now, and the phantom of cradle songs had almost faded from his brain.

Stephen King

#6. I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth (aside from the pleasure of regularly counting the beans).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.

Fanny Burney

#8. parking lot at Cris's apartment. The Chinese restaurant was packed. Cris's apartment was dark, but yellow light and dance music blared from the windows of the apartment next door. "Why

A.L. Anderson

#9. People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

Annalee Newitz

#10. Damn, women truly could be cold-hearted bitches.

R.L. Mathewson

#11. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Julian Fellowes

#12. My beauty comes from having my own style, living my own way and knowing my own mind.

Lee Damsky

#13. It wasn't enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with possibility that one of my teammates could be dragged off the field by the inhabitants of the mental hospital.

Wes Locher

#14. When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

Jayne Mansfield

#15. Tonight, when Frankie sits at the table and innocently knocks over her glass of Diet Coke, Aunt Jayne starts to cry, and the translucent veil of general okayness evaporates to reveal the honest, ugly parts underneath.

Sarah Ockler