Grad Commencement Quotes & Sayings

Guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring. — Robin Morgan

We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing. — Ian Hecox

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex. — Carl Sagan

Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren't achieved when you hide out in a place where you're nice and cozy. — Colleen Hoover

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite. — Rachel Kushner

Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security. — Samantha Power

Redditch: Christ, I hadn't even expected to be here. I was only standing in Redditch 'cause I was told it was a no-hoper. They bloody-well lied. Needles everywhere, you know that? Half the world's needles, made in sodding..

I was holding out for Cheam, or Chester. A 'ch' place, a nice little English 'ch' place. Not 'Redditch', listen to that. It's not a name, it's a fucking noise. What is it, 'Redditch'? Sounds like a frog vomiting.

And they told me it was Worcestershire, another lie!

Atkins: It is Worcestershire.

Redditch: Oh Humphrey, it's Birmingham. Everyone knows it is, listen to the sodding accent. I imagined meadows and steeples and farmyards and haystacks. Well, do you know what, shall I tell you something? You can't find a haystack in Redditch cause of all the fucking needles! — James Graham

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone. — Adrienne Bailon

I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like. — Bob Newhart

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them. — George W. Bush

He liked the sound of her voice, husky and low in a way that got him thinking about pinning her to the rock and setting his mouth to work on the hollow of her throat, proving to her which of them was in control. Then again, feelings didn't get much more out of control that his were at the moment. — Melissa Cutler