United World College Quotes

#1. My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.

Hermann Eilts

#2. Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Samuel Richardson

#3. How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

Edward Abbey

#4. I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest I was ... when you know a gay guy has a crush on you, it's the most flattering thing.

Daniel Radcliffe

#5. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

Mohsin Hamid

#6. A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

Bette Midler

#8. Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you - for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere.

Meindert DeJong

#9. Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

Ma Jian

#10. It's time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens - sometimes hundreds - of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.

F.H. Buckley

#11. Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

A. N. Wilson