Wesleyan Quotes

#1. I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

Kevin Dunn

#2. Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

Christine Lavin

#3. I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Ayelet Waldman

#4. Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

Chris O'Dowd

#5. I could only be who it seemed I had to be.

Cheryl Strayed

#6. Well darling, we're all terminal, aren't we?

Nancy Jo Cullen

#7. The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

Eric Hoffer

#8. For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.

Kendrick Meek

#9. IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style

Tony Dovale

#10. You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

Ann Cotton

#11. The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that's still there - it's preserved.

Blake Lively

#12. The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.

David Mamet

#13. My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.

Robert Longo

#14. In the morning I write love letters and in the afternoon I dig graves

Victor Hugo

#15. I would not put my little bird in the jaws of a trap without being near enough to make sure it wouldn't close on her.

Lili St. Crow