Academy Prize Event

Famous quotes containing the words academy, prize and/or event:

    “...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
    —Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)

    “What we have we prize not to the worth
    Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
    Why, then we rack the value, then we find
    The virtue that possession would not show us
    Whiles it was ours.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)