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)

“To become a token woman—whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters—is to become something less than a man ... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“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)