Andrew Delbanco Quotes

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

Andrew Delbanco

• College
• Bullshit
• Acquire

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • College
  • Investment
  • Companies

• Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Good
  • School
  • College

• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • College
  • Myself

• Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Friends
  • Free
  • College

• I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Important
  • School
  • College

• For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Work
  • College
  • Language

• When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Think
  • College
  • Platform

• The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Long
  • School

• Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Family
  • Parents
  • College

• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Reading
  • College
  • Library

• One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Up
  • College
  • Uncle

• I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • School
  • High
  • College

• College students typically receive marketing offers in the mail from upwards of a hundred companies each year.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • College
  • Marketing

• The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.

  

  Luke Evans
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I wasn't allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was - I guess I cheated a little bit and started when I was in college, but I graduated! Barely.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • College

• I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • History
  • College
  • Football

• One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Work
  • College

• If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Up
  • Words
  • Prayer

• When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • People
  • Teenager
  • Albums

• When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Chaos

• So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

  

  Andrew Delbanco
  • College
  • Bullshit
  • Acquire