(18 quotes found)
“Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.”
David McCord
“In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.”
Charles Krauthammer
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays”
Wendell Berry
“The only problem is that yesterday, I caught her 'grading' the essays.”
Wendy DeSousa
“We're not really looking at how the essay is written. We're looking for someone's essay that appeals to us, who wants to be in the florist shop business and wants to learn.”
“How is it possible that several essays can subvert state sovereignty?”
Xu Hui
“Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire.”
William Blum
“The students turn their applications in to the Dean of Students office, and then all members read the essays without knowing their name or face. And then we vote accordingly.”
William Shaffer
“The essays are all-essay exams. The average American student taking essay exams? Are you kidding me? Oh, that would never happen.”
Victoria Brinton
