Intramural Quotes & Sayings

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen. — Madeleine Albright

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end. — Juliet Marillier

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality. — Emma Watson

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB. — David Einhorn

I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort. — Christina Baker Kline

Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was made to do." Isabelle picked up the mouse, wound it again, and set it down. "Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken. — Brian Selznick

He's so outta my league, we're not even playing the same sport ... He's professional soccer in Europe and I'm intramural badminton in the States. — Nicki Elson

You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny. — Sheena Iyengar

GOD GRACE BY BIRTH FEMALE PNEUMA RHADAMANTHINE DRACONIAN HEBETIC PUBERAL THAN MEN. OBVIOUSY, MODERN ERUDITED WOMEN WILL PLY PILOT EITHER INTRAMURAL AND ALFRSCO HAP DEXTEROUSLY .NO DOUBT AT ALL. — Various

In crew, contempt is important. In Boston, Boston University and Northeastern crew are treated with contempt by the college up the river. Intramural crew is treated with contempt. Nonathletic coxswains (Chinese engineering majors, poets) are treated with contempt. A true coxswain is a diminutive jock, raging against the pint size that made him the butt of so many jokes at Prep school. He runs twenty stadiums a day, his girlfriend is six feet one, and he can scream orders even when he has the flu (which he catches at least three times a winter). — Lisa Birnbach

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams. — Paul D. Boyer

Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise. — Steven E. Landsburg

There are many who do not like ESMA being a museum with tours for members of the public and foreign tourists; they want to knock it down and create a park with a golf course 'so that society can forget'. — Paul Vallely

But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending it's arranged the other way ... — George Bernard Shaw

It's easy to have chemistry when nobody is sitting on the bench. — Shaka