Mcconnell Arts Center Quotes & Sayings

Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved. — George Orwell

But of course, the most important trick in beating the S-chool game is to know that it is a game, as abstract, unreal, and useless as chess, and that beating it is a trick. The game is important only because (as with chess) there are rewards for playing it well, and (unlike chess) penalties for playing it badly. This is something that almost all successful students know, almost by instinct. I sensed it at ten, and knew it thoroughly and consciously by the time I was thirteen. — John Holt

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object. — Chuck Palahniuk

It was apparent that the ladies vying to be Miss Colombia had to first go through a stringent competition of poise, talent, and debate on who had the best abs and biggest breasts to win the right to represent their department. They received lots of cheers from the crowds - and lots of open stares from all the police guarding the boulevard. — Bryanna Plog

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere. — Sofia Coppola

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem. — Geoffrey Canada

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. — Robert Kennedy

Love doesn't conquer all, but it can help you conquer everything else. — Laurell K. Hamilton

He wanted nothing more to do with love; he was fed up with the whole business. He had thought that he could just give up and follow his father's advice, but he had advanced too far in his work; he had crossed the abyss that separates a man from his dream, and now there was no going back. He couldn't go forward or back. It was easier just to leave the stage. — Paulo Coelho

The sky is black, so rich and thick it looks warm. It feels as if I can see for miles into that blackness, the stars glimmering white, and as my eyes adjust, there are millions of stars. Billions. And it is time to move on. I have no choice. — Melissa Lion

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. — Teresa Of Avila

My boss seems to think that my hair is gonna fall off & go into the ice cream. This hair ain't movin' my dude. 150mph on the highway on a street bike it doesn't move! What makes you think it's gonna move in a gelato shop? — Pauly D

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. — Douglas Adams

I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat. — Charlie Melancon

The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance. — Chen Shui-bian