Calihan Academic Fellowship Quotes & Sayings

How it is we have so much information, but know so little? — Noam Chomsky

All I can do is hope. — Susane Colasanti

PEOPLE EQUAL S**T!!! — Slipknot

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it. — Jean Giraudoux

The most basic Buddhist stance: sober examination of what lies before you, leaving aside all assumptions. — Alan W. Watts

Frankly speaking, you look like ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag. — Stephen King

Carry the flame of love and light to everyone you meet. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter. — William Shakespeare

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will. — Naomi Novik

How can you try harder at something that consumes every waking thought? — Brigid Kemmerer

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. — Hun Sen

Also, there is a dedicated community of people in the world who will always be able to connect with each other across all languages, boundaries, and religions. It is the "Readers' Club." People who read a lot, starting at a very young age, are people who were raised by books. They have learned about forms of love and hate, kindness, respect, and ideas that are different from their own. They experience the world as something infinitely larger than before. They enjoy the indescribable feeling of having found their true selves. We readers are book people, and Jean Perdu [the protagonist] is one of us. We are all traveling on an invisible literary riverboat, one that carries us down the stream of life. It shapes, holds, and comforts us. At — Nina George

There is no other place where the heart should be so free as before the mercy seat. There, you can talk out your very soul, for that is the best prayer that you can present. Do not ask for what some tell you that you should ask for, but for that which you feel the need of, that which the Holy Spirit has made you to hunger and to thirst for, you ask for that. — Charles Spurgeon

Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one. — Catherine Taylor