The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. – Robert J. Kibbee Category: College
A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. – Caroline Bird Category: College
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. – J. Frank Dobie Category: College
The poetry of a given age teaches us less what it has, than what it wants and what it loves. It is a living medal, where the concavities in the die are transformed into convexities on the bronze or gold. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847) Category: Poetry
It was as if some silver chime had waked a chord in his memory. – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907 Category: Memory
Im going to work so that its a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it. – Steve Prefontaine Category: work
