Valedictorian Opening Quotes

#1. Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. - Author: Mikhail Lermontov

#2. What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? - Author: Brendan Fraser

#3. Laurent, just turned twenty, and possessing an elaborate mind with a gift for planning, detached it from the petty intrigues of the court and set it loose on the broader canvas of this, his first command. - Author: C.S. Pacat

#4. If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys. - Author: Kim Harrison

#5. A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality. - Author: Carolina DeBartolo

#6. Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook. - Author: Julia Child

#7. Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies. - Author: J.K. Rowling

#8. If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? - Author: Maynard Jackson

#9. I loved my girlfriend, but we were two people separated by an 'and'; my father and I were anagrams. - Author: Ben Moore

#10. All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely. - Author: H.L. Mencken

#11. We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. - Author: John Drinkwater