Quotes About Brown University

#1. One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

Lisa Loeb

#2. I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.

Barry Sternlicht

#3. I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional ... waiter, for 3 years.

John Krasinski

#4. After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

George Stigler

#5. When Rose McDermott, a professor of political science at Brown University, got divorced two years ago, she noticed that a cluster of her friends were splitting up at around the same time.

Katie Hafner

#6. And Richard Phillips writes, Theology bores today's Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself.

Tim Challies

#7. Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Asa Don Brown

#8. Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

Louise Brown

#9. I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

Dhani Harrison

#10. Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#11. In Deo Speramus, In God we hope.

Brown University

#12. Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

Asa Don Brown

#13. I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don't work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence. Hunches don't get you research funding, tenure at your university, or access to the world's largest telescopes. But a hunch was all I had.

Mike Brown

#14. My Epitaph:
THIS is Plan B

Oran Kangas

#15. Something that's bigger than you, and something that's kind and forgiving, I'd heard one of the meeting leaders say. That's all your Higher Power has to be.

Jennifer Weiner

#16. John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Russell Banks

#17. Certainty is one of the weakest positions in life. Curiosity is one of the most powerful. Certainty prohibits learning, curiosity fuels change.

Liz Wiseman

#18. I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of ... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

Emma Watson

#19. Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

Emmylou Harris

#20. No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Gordon Brown

#21. A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

Bobby Jones

#22. Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

Asa Don Brown

#23. If you don't talk about it, it didn't happen.

James Rollins

#24. I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

Gordon Brown

#25. Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

Rita Mae Brown

#26. I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

Archie Panjabi