Schreyer Student Quotes

#1. In any case, I hadn't gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.

Alexei Panshin

#2. And the peasants would beat them so cruelly, sometimes even about the nose and eyes, and he felt so sorry, so sorry for them that he almost cried, and his mother always used to take him away from the window.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. It would be horrible to live with someone who didn't like the same things you like.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.

Nick D'Aloisio

#5. There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least.

Roger Zelazny

#7. A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Charles De Gaulle

#8. The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

Piero Scaruffi

#9. But knowing what I don't want to do doesn't help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image.

Haruki Murakami