Wischer Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. — W. Somerset Maugham

May you find the path of peace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Man is a wolf to man.
[Lat., Homo homini lupus.] — Plautus

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. — Billy Corgan

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please. — Charles Darwin

Excellence is excellence's only companion. — Patrick Rothfuss

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. — Marshall McLuhan

I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living. — Donna Air

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope

I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way. — Melissa Febos

There is no defeat except for those who give up. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. — Elizabeth Warren

It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in. — Danika Stone

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time. — Adrian Lyne