“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teac…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: School, Learning, Love, Fame, rich
“You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you…”— Tom Petty, amazon.comTagged: College, Work, Friends, Fun
“Make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.”— Felicia Day, amazon.comTagged: Work Hard, College, college major
“High school parties exhausted me because I always felt like I was the only thinking person in a room mostly full of morons obliterating precious IQ points with every gulp of whatever booze they managed to steal out of their parents' liquor cabinets. College parties are exhausting in a diametrically…”— Megan McCafferty, amazon.comTagged: College, parties, Intelligence, high school
“University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”— Nora Sakavic, amazon.comTagged: College, university, Dreams
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s th…”— Ray Bradbury, books.google.comTagged: College, Writers, Writing
“Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.”— Dhaval Gajera, amazon.comTagged: studying, college major, College
“When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see…”— Maureen Johnson, amazon.comTagged: College, Reading
“I hate that phrase 'the real world.' Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?”— Richard Hugo, amazon.comTagged: College, real world, university
“But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: College, student
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”— John Green, books.google.comTagged: College, Graduation
“But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.”— Koren Zailckas, amazon.comTagged: College, Alcohol
“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.”— Malcolm X, amazon.comTagged: College, Distractions
“I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: College, Education, Marriage
“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to dest…”— Abbie Hoffman, amazon.comTagged: College, Education, degree
“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.”— Mark Twain, books.google.comTagged: College, Education
“I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning…”— Vincent Price, amazon.comTagged: College, Graduation, Knowledge, Education
“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”— L. Frank Baum, amazon.comTagged: Work, College
“I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel u…”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.comTagged: College, graduate school
“I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.comTagged: degree, College
“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please…”— Chris Hedges, amazon.comTagged: College, risks, Failure
“Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?”— Rick Riordan, amazon.comTagged: College, Education
“When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the night. The biggest Slurpee you can find, half cherry half Coke. Pajama pants, the kind that have been washed so many times they are tissue-paper thin. And finally, dace breaks. Lots o…”— Jenny Han, amazon.comTagged: finals, College, university
“And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!”— Spider Robinson, amazon.comTagged: College, Education
“A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.”— Mary Karr, amazon.comTagged: university, Education, College
“Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?”— Grace Metalious, amazon.comTagged: College, Movies, magazines, college life
“If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.”— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.comTagged: College, graduate student
“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force i…”— John Henry Newman, amazon.comTagged: university, College, Education
“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.”— Mhairi McFarlane, amazon.comTagged: College, university
“In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.”— J.R. Rim, goodreads.comTagged: university, College, degree