Katelyn M. Thompson’s Blog

“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”

–Christopher Reeve

This guy is hiliarous! He spoke at Emerson’s Commencement this year and was awesome! I’ve got to find the time to listen to the whole speech more carefully!

“I asked my friends, ‘What advice did you get on your graduation?’ 87% of them didn’t remember. … Which suggests my presence here is about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.”

–Bernard Cromwell, May 17, 2010

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“We are all children in various stages of growing up.”

-Doug Marlette, June 3, 2005

“Aaaah-choooo!!”
audience: “God Bless You.”

Ryan Brown, May 2001

“And with iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.”

-President Obama, May 9, 2010

“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.”

-John F. Kennedy

“Things are more like today than they ever have been before.”

-Gerald R. Ford

“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”

– Benjamin Franklin

“Never spend your money before you have it.”

– Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, February 21, 1825