Famous quotes containing the words student and/or symphony:
“When I tried to talk to my father about the kind of work I might do after college, he said, You know, Charlotte, Ive been giving a lot of thought to that, and it seems to me that the world really needs good, competent secretaries. Your English degree will help you. He said this with perfect seriousness. I was an A student at Bryn Mawr ...”
—Charlotte Palmer (b. c. 1925)
“The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous manthat is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sensehas ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)