Quotes About Graduation Speeches

#1. Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#2. For the widow inhabits a tale not of her own telling.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. It is for the artist ... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

James Whistler

#4. One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

Jerry Moran

#5. What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#6. Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Garry Trudeau

#7. There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Alastair Campbell

#8. I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

Joseph Kanon

#9. I, Jesse Carter, am fucked.

River Savage

#10. I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#11. Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.

Tina Fey