Peirce College Quotes & Sayings

The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt hat, as he walked briskly but rather ungracefully across the college yard, fitted very well with the opinion current among us that we were looking upon a real live genius, who had a touch of the prophet in his make-up. — William Elwood Byerly

Think you've got the guts to actually go through with it this time?" (Puck)
I responded by slashing at his face, barely missing him as he ducked. (Ash)
"Oooh, that had a bit of temper behind it." He sneered, eyes gleaming as he circled back. "But don't think I'll go easy on you, just because of our history. I'm not like my other half - weak, pathetic, restrained ... "
"Loud, obnoxious, immature," I added
"Hey!" The real Puck called from farther down, dodging as Other Ash slashed at him. "I'm standing right here, you two! — Julie Kagawa

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful. — Alan Dershowitz

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race. — Juan Williams

About 90 percent of the things in our lives are right, and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 90 percent that are right, and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious. The words Think and Thank — Og Mandino

Do you love me, Jet? Despite it all, do you love me?"
"Ayden, I'm here. Of course I love you. I loved you before, I love you after, and Ill love you for everything in-between. — Jay Crownover

I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively. — Mark Wahlberg

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back
if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day? — C.S. Lewis

We were smack bang in the middle, years from the finish, taking nothing for granted. I — Max Porter

No matter how hard I try to fight against it, my soul recognizes him, — P.C. Cast

[Benjamin Peirce's] lectures were not easy to follow. They were never carefully prepared. The work with which he rapidly covered the blackboard was very illegible, marred with frequent erasures, and not infrequent mistakes (he worked too fast for accuracy). He was always ready to digress from the straight path and explore some sidetrack that had suddenly attracted his attention, but which was likely to have led nowhere when the college bell announced the close of the hour and we filed out, leaving him abstractedly staring at his work, still with chalk and eraser in his hands, entirely oblivious of his departing class. — William Elwood Byerly

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art. — Carine Roitfeld

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. — Hunter S. Thompson

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful. — Walter Lang

As they walked into the living room, Trevor cleared his throat loudly. We're coming in. Hands where I can see them, dicks where I can't. — Katie Allen

The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead. — Erica Jong