Stanford Speech Quotes

#1. Pauline had restored order after the ordeal of the birth. She had swallowed her revulsion - what a mess it had made - restored order, made things right for the homecoming.

Alice McDermott

#2. Damn it. What have we unleashed? (Sin)
Doom, destruction ... at least he's not nuclear, right? (Kat)
At this point, who knows? (Sin)
Oh look, Mr. Positive has come out to play again. Welcome back, Mr. Positive. All the boys and girls have missed you so. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.

Stan Freberg

#4. Mister went to his spot before the fireplace and demanded that it be made warm.

Jim Butcher

#5. When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom.

Amish Tripathi

#6. You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

Monica Ali

#7. Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support.

Jay McInerney

#8. Everything about you is how I wanna be;
Your freedom comes naturally;
Everything about you resonates happiness;
Now I won't settle for less ...

Matthew Bellamy

#9. Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Napoleon Hill

#10. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

Steve Jobs

#11. What does your birth date say about you? You are old!

Ljupka Cvetanova

#12. It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.

Chetan Bhagat

#13. Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#14. There are many kinds of powers in the world - military power, power of the written word, intellectual power. We've tried and failed to bring peace with these kind of powers. The greatest power is the power of love.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#15. One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that's too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn't playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him sometimes & wonder if he ever got there.

Brian Andreas

#16. As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.

Peter Thiel

#17. Nothing is unbelievable, just expand your vision.

Saru Singhal

#18. We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.

Pauline Hanson