Cliburn Junior Quotes & Sayings

We die the day we lose the will to go on. We die the day we stop caring about life. — J.M. Darhower

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns. — Sally Schneider

In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority. — Herman Melville

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I always feel in a funny place when I'm really asked to inform people, so I just try to take the more absurdist route - like, "this is how you could do it, but it's actually turning into a cat now. This might happen at home I guess, but it probably won't." — Thu Tran

[Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News. — Gore Vidal

There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word. — Thomas Lovell Beddoes

When he was young, his father told him that black people didn't like water because they were brought over on slave ships. What did a black man want to swim for? The ocean floor was already littered with black men. — Yaa Gyasi

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't. — Christopher Walken

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation
to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out,they're in that building. Just because we black,
we get along with the killers? What is that? — Tupac Shakur

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching. — Tom Lehrer

I will lay it out in black and white, and my tale will contain more truth than the great dead histories on my father's bookshelves. For they say what happened, but not what it was like. They say what happened, but they do not say why. — Beth Underdown