Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zora Neale Hurston

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

Zac Efron

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

William H. McRaven

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

Will McDonough

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Wendy Wasserstein

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Josie Bissett

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

Joss Whedon

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Joss Whedon

Don't just be yourself. Be all of yourself. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Laurie Anderson

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Terry Teachout

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

Shannon Lucid

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

Leonard Orr

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

Leonard Nimoy

What mark will I leave behind? How will anyone know I have been here? What sign will tell the future traveler I existed? 'I am here! Today... I exist'. I believe the deepest impression is made in those moments when I can say 'I care, I love'.

Lee Pace

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

Marc Garneau

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

Robert Sternberg

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Wally Amos

Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

Tom Brokaw

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tobias Wolff

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Tim Duncan

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Sheryl Sandberg

I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there - and yes, this still happens to me. And when I'm not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway.

Simon Newcomb

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

Spencer Johnson

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Tig Notaro

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

Thomas Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Tony Hillerman

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.

Susan Jeffers

You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.

T. S. Eliot

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Susan Sontag

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

Tony Snow

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.