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)

“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)