"I like to eat ice cream, and I really enjoy a good pair of slacks." - Brick Tamlan

"Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

"One time I wrestled a giraffe to the ground with my bare hands." - John C. Riley Avid Bearcat enthusiast

" Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." -Babe Ruth

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."-Tyler Durden, Fight Club

“Yeah. There were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.” - Brick Tamland

"Adventure is out there!" -Charles M. Muntz

"But alas, we are stuck with a few broken noises, with which we must distribute the understandings of our entire reality." -The Strange things I Mourn by Aidan Metz...

“What? You pooped in the refrigerator? And you ate the whole wheel of cheese? How’d you do that? Heck, I’m not even mad; that’s amazing.” – Ron Burgundy

"Your girl's a five, but your mom's a dime piece." - Lil Uzi

"Ooooo, Denzel Ward! You had barbecue back there? And you didn't invite me? Hurt. My. Feelings!" - Gus Johnson  

" people will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you, but how strong you stand is what makes you"-LeBron James  

"Ya keep rolling your eyes pal, maybe you'll find a brain back there." -Scout    

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller

"There's a certain amount of pleasure in being able to create something and watch it grow." -Lee Corso

"Don't count the days, make the days count." -Muhammad Ali

"I am the one who knocks."

“A ghost cannot haunt you if you don't believe in ghosts. You'd simply walk around your 'haunted' house like a champion, ignoring the knocks in the night, attributing them to wind. Who cares? It's only the believers who ...

Why not take that risk? “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.” – Michael Scott

Mr. Gary Rogers has been advising the staff of The Purple Quill since he joined the Elder faculty in the winter of 2011. In the summer of 2012, he attended a Journalism "bootcamp" at the Reynolds Institute in Reno, Nevada. While th...