College Quotes
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I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.
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I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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To be honest, I knew nothing about fashion at all. When I decided to go to college, I just wanted to do something different.
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I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.
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I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.
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Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.
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So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren't educated so much as they are just kept eligible.
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I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
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When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.
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I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.
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Every year, it seems to be there are more people right out of college who are willing to jump into a start-up.
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I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.
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Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.
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When I started out, I had no idea what I was doing. I was 16, and acting was a new, exciting thing. So, I took it on. It was an excuse to get away from college.
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I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
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An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.
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There's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. I got my partying out of my system in college.
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Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.
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I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.
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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
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I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.
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Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
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For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
