Morsani Center Quotes & Sayings

Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder. — R.S. Thomas

Shortcomings we hate in others can be hidden issues we have failed to recognize within ourselves. — Okisha Jackson

From compromise to deceit is a small step. — Billy Graham

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Thomas had gotten his learner's permit a week ago - the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine. — Harlan Coben

Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age. — Patrick Hamilton

Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail! — Bradley James

When will you let go and freely wander? When will you see the beauty of the flowers despite the stinging of the bees? When will you climb the tree of life for its fruits and high views instead of swinging your axe? When will you finally choose to be free? — Laren Grey Umphlett

This means it will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun, so there's no immediate cause for worry! — Stephen Hawking

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors. — Gaspard Ulliel

Instead, I ask you with all my heart, come back to Matt's fort with us now! It's not because I like you - don't think that, whatever you do! But, my daughter does - I know that now - and perhaps I can learn too. — Astrid Lindgren

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious ... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney Company

Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return. — Ryan Holmes

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals. — Sun Tzu

There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears. — Edith Wharton