James Bryant Conant Quotes

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

James Bryant Conant

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• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • True
  • Try

• Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Sometimes

• I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Learning
  • Imagination
  • Walk

• One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Character
  • Story

• My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Parents
  • Golf
  • Interest

• It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Live
  • Mother

• The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Action
  • Statistics
  • Predictions

• [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

  

  Cleopatra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Italy

• Success is overrated.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Success

• I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Children
  • Today
  • Strong

• He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Care
  • Treasures

• I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Happy
  • Running
  • Ground

• I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Advice
  • University
  • I Hope

• Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Ideas

• He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • University
  • Ground
  • Hallowed