Obermayer Awards Quotes & Sayings

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem. — Bjarne Stroustrup

I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees. — Lupita Nyong'o

Unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not as materially wiser or better than the many. It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump. There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to — Henry David Thoreau

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves. — Muhammad Ali

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life. — Matthea Harvey

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive. — Chris Raschka

Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate. — Barack Obama

There were two separate and notable things that happened that evening, but they happened at the same time, and I do not feel it would write down properly that way, going back and forth, so what I will do is, spell out one, then the other. I always assumed that, in the few books I have read, the author had made some sort of attempt to squeeze real life between the covers. Now I see that this is not so: life is made easier to handle - blinkered, tethered and hobbled - before it is whipped into words and bound between leather. — Paul Quarrington