Quotes for All
One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she’s Miss Mattie T. Graham. I thought she needed something in the middle. If she’s going to be an honorary Southerner, she’s got to have something in the middle, so I just … Read more
I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they’re giving me]. Eric Idle
In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, ‘for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century’. That’s what the Academy was always for – to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art. Edward Jay Epstein
They are wise to the ways of Wall Street – and…getting their fair share of the loot.(:)…from who will be the head of NIH, to which honorary degree will go to whom, which congressman gets the campaign funds from AMPAC (the political arm of the AMA), and whether Medicare fees can be hiked a bit … Read more
I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says Hi, Aunt Dolly. Or Are you Aunt Dolly? I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother. Dolly Parton
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee. Dolly Parton
I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn’t laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw. Denise Mina
Every member must work or quit. No honorary members. Charles Grandison Finney
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. Carl Friedrich Gauss
I love Scotland – I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on ‘Braveheart,’ you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe. Brian Blessed