Quincy College Quotes & Sayings

Athenaeum, or Jonathan Edwards at thirteen entering Yale College, and while yet of a tender age shining in the horizon of American literature; while the same age finds H. W. Longfellow writing for the Portland Gazette. At fourteen John Quincy Adams was private secretary to Francis H. Dana, American Minister to Russia; at fifteen Benjamin Franklin was writing for the New England Courant, and at an early age became a noted journalist. Benjamin West at sixteen had painted "The Death of Socrates," at seventeen George Bancroft had won a degree in history, Washington Irving had gained — Charles Stewart Given

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. — Mikhail Bakunin

If I am not working, I won't wear makeup and I will wear flats. — Michelle Ryan

Your mom can't hate a whole country because of one person! — Jeaniene Frost

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application. — Tony Gilroy

When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be. — Alan Watts

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid. — Justin Cronin

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does. — Karl Germain

John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence. — Paul C. Nagel

If we can observe and understand how our thoughts are impacting us, we can change who we're being and how we're experiencing the world. — Lori Deschene

The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he has for every aspect of the film, and every aspect of the frame - that's the type of actor I am now; it's not the type of actor I was then. But without understanding his process, and then coming to learn it later on, I would never be the actor I am now. — Jake Gyllenhaal

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby. — Patrick Fugit

Many of you have loved ones who are wandering off the path to eternal life. You wonder what more you can do to bring them back. You can depend on the Lord to draw closer to them as you serve Him in faith. — Henry B. Eyring