College Quotes

But he just seems to have an engine . . . that allows him to run marathons pretty well. He's also very solid. He had very few injuries in college, a little bit of a calf problem freshman year, that was it.

Chris Smith
- Pretty
- Engine
- Marathons
I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Gaby Hoffmann
- Writing
- School
- High

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

Abbi Jacobson
- Up
- New
- New York
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

Aaron Staton
- Career
- College
- Class
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Angela Bassett
- School
- She
- Mother
Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

Wendy Kopp
- Country
- American
- Chinese
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Mandy Patinkin
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

Lincoln Child
- Writing
- Job
- House