Quotes About University

I went to drama school at New York University.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

I actually went to university.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.