Quotes About Oberlin

#1. The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin.

Isabel Gillies

#2. He tells me that he knows Max from freshman year - roughly twenty years - and I remember that a huge number of Oberlin friends are here and ask what bonds them all for life.
He says "No one else will be friends with us.

Melissa Bank

#3. He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin
it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.

Melissa Bank

#4. You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

Julie Taymor

#5. I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.

Alan Furst

#6. Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas.

Jeremy Denk

#7. I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

Nick Cave

#8. Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca The Younger

#9. I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

Bill Wilson

#10. Do not antagonize the cops, I told myself. Repeat if necessary: Do not antagonize the cops.

Gillian Flynn

#11. The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Malcolm De Chazal

#12. To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#13. Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?

Thomas Dunn English

#14. Like somebody who was just happy because there was macaroni and cheese in the world.

Augusten Burroughs

#15. As usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

George Eliot

#16. I play a lot of football, watch a lot of football, and think about football.

Jamie Blackley

#17. There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

Wallis Simpson