University Of Minnesota Sayings

#1. Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

George Stigler

#2. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Tom Lehman

#3. I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Loni Anderson

#4. Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

Thomas J. Sargent

#5. Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

Dave Winfield

#6. Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

Harry J. Anslinger

#7. I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

James Rosenquist

#8. A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.

Mark Kennedy

#9. I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

Garrison Keillor

#10. The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

Paul D. Boyer

#11. He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.

Gregory Maguire

#12. Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

Kai Bird

#13. John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working

Michael Tomasky

#14. After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

George Stigler

#15. The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

Blaise Pascal

#16. The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

Ellen G. White

#17. You can't say that people don't love music anymore because they do. If we say that all the music stopped, if music stops now, the world can't handle that. We need our music.

Warryn Campbell

#18. To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Voltaire

#19. Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Kitty Kelley

#20. I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.

Sxip Shirey

#21. I love seeing my family.

Mia Wasikowska

#22. Your best kicks ass and takes names," Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.

Allen Zadoff

#23. Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

Ray Bradbury

#24. In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

Van Jones

#25. Doing something wrong repeatedly does not make it right.

Tim Fargo

#26. You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

Paul Newman

#27. Success" means nothing more than playing a certain game well enough to receive whatever high accolades exist within that game.

Johnny B. Truant

#28. I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

Walter Kirn