Alumni Speech Quotes & Sayings

Ben R. Rich, the ex-president of the famous "Skunk Works," Lockheed-Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP) group, revealed the truth just before he died. In an alumni speech at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1993, he said, "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity . . . Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do. — Len Kasten

There you have the definition of being human: we don't want new things, we want things that feel new. — James Marquess

I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea. — Emily Dickinson

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face. — Elizabeth Banks

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. — Sarah Vaughan

And I have begun thinking of that life as miraculous and lucky. How could a man I had dreaded as my commandant and who tried twice to get me kicked out of college become the subject of the first book I would write? [ ... ] Who could have foreseen the day I would deliver his eulogy at the Summerall Chapel, or that I would give a speech on the night they named the dining room in the new Alumni Hall after him? Not me. Not once. Not ever. — Pat Conroy

Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference. When — Scott Adams