“It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.” KindImportantSchoolFilmOpportunityTelevisionMajorsGraduatesGreat OpportunityFilm SchoolNorthwestern Author:Richard Donner
“I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.” FilmTrainingTheaterNorthwestern Author:Zach Gilford
“I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.” GenerationsStyleThirdsShirtsFlannelsNorthwestern Author:Cody Horn
“I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.” ShowsCompanyTrainingUniversityChicagoMimeNorthwesternNorthwestern University Author:Kerry Bishe
“In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.” MindHumansMayChildrenDoeHas BeensBodyProcessRealizingHuman BeingsQualityVirtueChildhoodCapableIdealsEnglandBe GoodAll TimeDefinedFranceAdulthoodWomanhoodManhoodFleetingMind And BodyMedievalAcquisitionObedientArabiaArrivingVictorianDresdenSpartaPatagoniaNorthwesternConstantinopleCarthageZambia Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.” ReadingWaitingFictionWifeExampleMajorsAnd LoveUniversityCurrentsMy WifeActressesEnglish MajorNorthwesternGoldfinchesNorthwestern University Author:Nick Offerman
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.” YearsTwoAmericaWaterAnimalHalfAliveGrowingIndustryNeededDrugWasteMajorsYears AgoAccountsEnvironmentalConnectedLocalsStreamsTwo YearsChickensSwimmingFactoriesPollutionAgricultureThreatenedConfinedHormonesClosureTysonBacteriaArkansasTwo Years AgoOutbreaksMarylandShellfishWater PollutionNorthwestern Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Life sort of shrinks and you get older, I don't know if I'm going to have time to do all the things and be all the places as I want to be. Wisconsin's really sacred for me, so no matter what happens, where I end up permanently living, I'll be spending weeks and weeks at least of the year, no matter how many years I live, in the northwestern Wisconsin area.” IfsKnowsWantYearsEndsMatterHappensWeekAreasNo Matter WhatSacredSpendingShrinksWisconsinNorthwestern Author:Justin Vernon
“Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's why President Obama took the opportunity to criticize the network during a speech defending his economic record at Northwestern University today. But in doing so, the president not only demonstrated the weakness of his position but also why he doesn't understand Fox's appeal.” MayStillsTodayOpportunityPresidentRecordsEconomicPositionSpeechNewsWeaknessDemocratUniversityAppealsCriticizePresident ObamaFoxesRivalsCablesNotableRatingFox NewsCable NewsNorthwesternNorthwestern University Author:Jonathan S. Tobin
“I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.” WorldRealSchoolDegreesVery GoodJournalismJournalistReal WorldNorthwestern Author:Garry Marshall
“I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.” WritingWellsSaidWantedWonderfulMetsQuietHollywoodCalmRadioPartnersAmbitiousHelloSitcomFreemanNorthwesternPublic Radio Author:Garry Marshall
“We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars.” IfsKnowsLooksWarRealMovingStudyPagesClimateReal LifeMoving ForwardClockBackwardsExpandingPrincetonClock Is TickingNorthwestern Author:Jill Stein
“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.” YearsImportantScienceTheoryDevelopmentSpringYears AgoMathematicsUniversityInventionCatastropheLecturesDescribingCalculusAnnouncementsNorthwesternNorthwestern University Book:The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale Source: The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale
“Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!” UniversityListsSellingWinnerPresidentialCandidatesImpressivePresidential CandidateOlympianGrammyEmmysAlumniNorthwestern Author:Stephen Colbert
“Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.” LastsLyingThreeWaterViewsGrowingSeaLandMountainOceanRiversWestSouthCurrentsCornersEastTinyMexicoFar AwayContinentsCrownsCapsTributeLoftyPacificSceneryMontanaArcticEast And WestGulf Of MexicoMountain PeaksNorthwestern Author:George Bird Grinnell
“I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'” PeopleSchoolGoneCollegeHigh SchoolTraditionalAppreciatedBeing CoolSpecialnessNorthwesternCollege ExperienceNot Appreciated Author:Zooey Deschanel
“It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules.” DifficultTeamDogDifficultyLionsSchedulesExplainingNorthwestern Author:Alex Agase
“...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such universities as Harvard, Illinois, Northwestern, Yale, Dublin, Oxford, or Toronto. Two are osteopaths. 3...also hold...(PhD's)....scientific....reputable....8 others received PhD's in such fields as chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, parasitology, or medical physics, from...Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Thus over 75%...are medical doctors or doctors of philosophy in scientific areas.” TwoBookPhilosophyAgeGivenDarkFieldsDegreesAreasDoctorsThirdsUniversityMedicalPhysicsNineTherapyThirtyChemistryHarvardDark AgesOxfordTorontoYaleColumbiaHold MeIllinoisPhysiologyHopkinsDublinCredentialsBerkeleyPhdsUnorthodoxNyuMedical DoctorNorthwesternUc Berkeley Author:Ralph W. Moss
“I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.” YearsSchoolNextUniversityNext YearSeattleNorthwesternNorthwestern University Author:George Stigler
“We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.” MillionsEconomyGoneRateForestsUnemploymentAcresUnemployment RateNorthwestern Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.” DifferentParentGrewGrew UpExtraordinaryAdoptedDifferent LifeNebraskaNorthwestern Author:Dan Chaon
“When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.” WarAmericaChoicesLiteratureMastersProgramPlanningCivil WarAmerican LiteratureBosniaNorthwestern Author:Aleksandar Hemon