Quotes For Scholarship Essays

#1. Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable ...

Rajneesh

#2. (Feedback) People become addicted to it. That's why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

Zadie Smith

#3. I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Reid Hoffman

#4. On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as an observer of the world who has a strong drive to testify, which I can do because I have the privilege of living in New York with enough food to eat and shelter.

Teju Cole

#5. That's not why I love, you, you know. I don't love you because you make me fly. You make me fly because I love you.

LeighAnn Kopans

#6. The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler."
from "Dug Down Deep

Joshua Harris

#7. A good player can make any guitar sound good.

Mike Bloomfield

#8. I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Dorothy Hamill

#9. A positive mental attitude can improve your health, enhance your relationships, increase your chances of success, and add years to your life.

Frank Sonnenberg

#10. Perhaps. Perhaps, see the great crowd of people with its rush and roar, bearing down upon them, too.

Charles Dickens

#11. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Robin Hobb

#12. When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

Martin Amis

#13. It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses
if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

Evan Esar

#14. They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

Anthony Horowitz

#15. Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

Bret Easton Ellis

#16. There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

Frederick Lenz