Academically Motivating Quotes & Sayings

When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie. — Bryant McGill

We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university. — Roger Revelle

I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along ... and then The Beatles ... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well ... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history ... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids. — Ringo Starr

A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it. — Luke Evans

Simple life and peaceful mind are very close friends! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression ... — Oscar Wilde

Firstly, phone calls constitute the most direct invasion of someone's space outside of actual physical contact. It strikes me that there is something downright arrogant about expecting someone to drop literally everything they are doing at a specific moment in order to attend to your voice, — Rebecca Davis

Gabe tried to force himself to listen to and comprehend the priest's words, but it was difficult, as Sophie's beauty kept distracting him. — Melanie Dickerson

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity ... And here, most of the saints are black. — Henry Louis Gates

I'm coming back for you Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear on the river Styx. — Rick Riordan