Quizbowl Quotes & Sayings

My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat. — Henny Youngman

The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal. — Elaine A. Cannon

One day, I'd like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long. — Seth Godin

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. — Stanislaw Lem

I am a college-educated American. In all my years of formal schooling, I never read Plato or Aristotle, Homer or Virgil. I knew nothing of Greek and Roman history and barely grasped the meaning of the Middle Ages. Dante was a stranger to me, and so was Shakespeare. The fifteen hundred years of Christianity from the end of the New Testament to the Reformation were a blank page, and I knew only the barest facts about Luther's revolution. I was ignorant of Descartes and Newton. My understanding of Western history began with the Enlightenment. Everything that came before it was lost behind a misty curtain of forgetting. Nobody did this on purpose. Nobody tried to deprive me of my civilizational patrimony. But nobody felt any obligation to present it to me and my generation in an orderly, coherent fashion. Ideas have consequences - and so does their lack. — Rod Dreher

Sure, QuizBowl wasn't a cool activity to join and, yeah, the idea of answering difficult questions in front of an audience terrified me. But it wasn't anything like the fear that accompanied my drowning nightmare - harrowing and visceral. No, this fear made me feel fizzy. Hopeful.
In fact, this fear felt like waking up do discover I am still here. — Emery Lord

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. — Charles Lamb

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response. — Ann Hood

A poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed. — Carolina Maria De Jesus