Doctoral Graduation Quotes & Sayings

My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave. — Jennifer Saunders

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. — Nicolas Walter

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter's Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind. — Katharine Weber

Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got. (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University) — William Shatner

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that all writers feel alienated ... I know that I do ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated. — John Le Carre

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me. — Quincy Jones

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. — Jon Krakauer

In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then? — Edward Jay Epstein