Commended Student Quotes & Sayings

I could mount you until I die. — Laurann Dohner

And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a man who has surely failed, who ought to have adopted a less adventurous vocation — T. S. Eliot

He is a truly free man, who does not need money to live. — Nael Gharzeddine

Gossip till the cows come home. — John Le Carre

for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit. — Thomas Hardy

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness. — Carl Jung

You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time. — Stephen Vincent Benet

An illustration is an enlargement, and interpretation of the text, so that the reader will comprehend the words better. As an artist, you are always serving the words.
You must never illustrate exactly what is written. You must find a space in the text so that the pictures can do the work. Then you must let the words take over where words do it best. It's a funny kind of juggling act. — Maurice Sendak

In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone. — Gilbert Seldes

I have a weakness for smart men. — Deborah Harkness

It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another's superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts. — Yangsze Choo