Shimer College Quotes & Sayings

Bran grabbed her sleeve, forcing her to look at him. "What in the hell is goin' on with you?" "What is wrong with me? What is wrong with your goats? They're evil! And they're laughing at me! Look at their smug little goat faces! Go on. Look at them! — Lorelei James

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually. — Donald Rumsfeld

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. — Jean Anouilh

I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a house full of stairs. After a while, when Gabe offered me a morning greeting, it didn't feel like he was greeting me but rather a giant pair of wings; no girl, just feathers. — Leslye Walton

At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I've never been able to shake this approach. — Alan Dowty

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings. — Russell Kirk

From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices. — Adi Godrej

Wow, what a cucumber. (Cool, I mean) — Rainbow Rowell

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. — Penn Jillette

Mourning was its own kind of music - the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together. — Victoria Schwab

Only you can impact the world in the way that God uniquely assigned to you. — Rich Nathan

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union. — Erich Fromm

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why. — Anne Perry