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Quotes About College

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.
~ Kris Gopalakrishnan
When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
~ Alexander Chee
When I was in college, I was madly in love with a girl. But unfortunately, her father didn't approve of the match. He didn't like me because I was on the verge of joining the film industry.
~ Varun Dhawan
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.
~ Kathi Appelt
In college I played power forward because I was one of the biggest guys on the team and my versatility allowed me to do that.
~ Robert Covington
When I went to college, I made my first mixtape, and Sean gave me three verses for it. That was a big reason anyone ever listened to my music. I definitely wouldn't be talking to you now if it wasn't for Big Sean.
~ Mike Posner
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career - neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
~ Chris Pavone
By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
~ Edgar Wright
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
As he responded to the essay questions, Mitchell kept bending his answers toward their practical application. He wanted to know why he was here, and how to live. It was the perfect way to end your college career. Education had finally led Mitchell out into life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
After four years at college, nobody was anybody she knew.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
He explained that he had arrived at college without knowing much about religion, and how, from reading English literature, he'd begun to realize how ignorant he was. The world had been formed by beliefs he knew nothing about. 'That was the beginning,' he said, 'realizing how stupid I was.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It was easy to make good choices when you had a web of people supporting you, not to mention money as a safety net when everyone else in your family did the right thing, went to the right college, held down a job.
~ Jennifer Weiner
College didn't erase the differences between how everyone grew up, but it disguised those differences—
~ Jennifer Weiner
College students don't go to bed until at least three. It's a college requirement. You sign a contract when you're accepted.
~ Jessica Park
The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time. You'll see.
~ Jessica Park
The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.
~ Jessica Park
Make a right onto Hoover Ave., and then bear left and head back to campus up Webber Road. We'll have to double-park outside Reber Hall." We
~ Jessica Park
He has no ABCD friends at college. He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending people not so much because they like them, but because of a past they happen to share.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
He has no ABCD friends at college. He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending people not so much because they like him, but because of a past they happen to share.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri