Notable Quotables

Category: Noteworthy

“To actually come here, and be in the place where [the] Star-Spangled Banner flew 200 years ago, it just sends chills down my spine. … I don’t care what your political persuasions are, it is our flag. We all own a part of it, and it represents all of us.”

—Kit Hinrichs, graphic designer and collector of American flag memorabilia, at the opening of UB’s “O! Say, Can You Design a Poster?” exhibition in the UB Student Center Gallery, Sept. 15

“For all those wondering just how Marvel Studios went from a hopeful newcomer with 2008’s Iron Man to making two of the most successful movies of the year with this summer’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, don’t worry; the University of Baltimore has created a course that might explain that very thing.”

—Graeme McMillan, Hollywood Reporter blogger, on UB’s Media Genres: Media Marvels course—which also received nods in Time, The Baltimore Sun, io9, Reuters and The Guardian—Sept. 23

“I watched the way that he would elegantly answer questions on issues that would generate anger, where with great precision he would cut immediately to the practical point of the question.”

—José F. Anderson, UB professor of law, on former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall at the Baltimore premiere of the Mr. Civil Rights documentary at the John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Sept. 19

“I must admit that I’m still partial to the Poe statue that Baltimore has on the campus of the University of Baltimore. ... As far as I’m concerned, it’s the best solid image of Poe around anywhere.”

—Jeff Jerome, curator emeritus of Baltimore’s Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, in an Oct. 10 Baltimore Sun article on the unveiling of a new statue of the famed poet and author in Boston