Sheldonian Concerts Quotes & Sayings

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs. — Gabrielle Zevin

Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now. — Lionel Tiger

Now I know my Redeemer lives. I know my Redeemer lives. Let all creation testify let this life within me cry. I know my Redeemer. He lives to take away my shame. And He lives forever I'll tproclaim That the payment for my sin was the precious life He gave. But now He's alive and there's an empty grave — Nicole C. Mullen

[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper. — Miguel De Cervantes

I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs. — Deirdre O'Kane

What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you — Oprah Winfrey

Remembering what it felt like to be 20 overwhelmed by feeling and sensation, lost for words. — Chris Kraus

I know it sounds crazy, but people with jobs tend to have more creative freedom than people without. — Jon Acuff

If it were up to me we'd ban them all. — Mel Reynolds

Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about our lives. Academic culture blesses this practice by insisting that the more abstract our speech, the more likely we are to touch the universal truths that unite us. But what happens is exactly the reverse: as our discourse becomes more abstract, the less connected we feel. There is less sense of community among intellectuals than in the most 'primitive' society of storytellers. Parker Palmer, AHW, 123 — Parker J. Palmer

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. — Annie Baker

If I were going to put a price tag on my lady parts, I'd find a more appetizing buyer. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials. — Carmelo Anthony

The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters. — Alber Elbaz