"College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation"

-- Vera Brittain

#College Quotes

“The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.”
“We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.”

Source : Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. May 17, 2006.
“Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
“Diane von Furstenberg actually gave me a very good piece of advice. She said, 'When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt,' so that's something I'm going with. I think that's a really good answer: Just don't listen to the doubts. Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts."”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.”
“I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.
“All writers are vampires.”
“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.”

Source : Desmond Morris (1987). “Cat Watching”, Crown Pub

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