Appropriate For Graduation Quotes & Sayings

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential. The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. — George Murray

Don't itch the itch feel the itch — E.M.

Don't be lasagna — The Doctor

I soon realized that what I really wanted was time to ruminate, time to observe, and often time to be alone. — Miss Read

Sometimes brokenness and blessing come hand in hand. — Lisa W. Smith

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men. — Chester W. Nimitz

It's a common observation that all science fiction novels say as much about the time of their composition as they do about the future. As they wrote Hard to Be a God, the Strugatsky brothers were working under considerable political pressure. Following Khrushchev's infamous visit to an exhibition of abstract art in 1962 ("dog shit" was one of his more printable responses) a wave of panicked ideological house-cleaning swept through the Soviet Union's artistic establishment. For SF writers, as Boris Strugatsky remembers, this resulted in a reminder that the only truly orthodox subject was "the collision of two worlds. — Arkady Strugatsky