Pithily Def Quotes & Sayings

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins

My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew. — Alan Arkin

If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is. — Haley Reinhart

I would like to see all this as a big joke that is being played upon us, but I have seen what was wrought in the past
the men who were destroyed without their being lifted from the dungheap of poverty, without recourse to justice. — F. Sionil Jose

I was exhausted but also for the first time in weeks I felt sleepiness, that rare, delicious liqueur, soaking into my body like blotter paper. — Barbara Kingsolver

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right? — Epictetus