Trelease Dorm Quotes

#1. In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures

Walter Prescott Webb

#2. Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

Laura Hillenbrand

#3. Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

William Least Heat-Moon

#4. Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

David Mamet

#5. If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.

Maureen Dowd

#6. Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again

Gayle Forman

#7. We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

Travis Barker

#8. There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

Lech Kaczynski

#9. I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

Kate Winslet

#10. Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

Kate Forsyth

#11. The problem with thoughtless signposting is that the reader has to put more work into understanding the signposts than she saves in seeing what they point to,

Steven Pinker

#12. Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.'
Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look.
Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own.

Sarah Rees Brennan