Academy Prize Event

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

“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

“Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)