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)

    Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me
    From mine own library with volumes that
    I prize above my dukedom.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
    Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)