Usf's Quotes

#1. I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.

James Bernard Frost

#2. For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

James Mercer

#3. I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

Sandra Cisneros

#4. If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well

Richard Branson

#5. In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

Emmanuelle Beart

#6. Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#7. I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

Maralee McKee

#8. In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Ella Baker

#9. Get to know your characters first, it makes it easier to write for them.

Robert McCarroll

#10. The important things were sensitivity to impressions, intuitive judgment, character assessment, and also patient bargaining skills. It had never so much as occurred to him to jump over walls or leap from roof to roof.

Amos Oz

#11. College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.

Jeff Cunningham

#12. American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

Hanoi Hannah

#13. If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.

Antony Armstrong-Jones