Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

David Brooks

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Robert Reich

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

Richard P. Feynman

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Scott Snyder

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them.

Bob Dylan

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Brian Kenny

There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.

Kreayshawn

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

John Cena

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

Tyra Banks

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

She graduated from high school with perfect marks.

Marin Hinkle

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Mr. Karadzic has no place to run and no place to hide, ... The noose is gradually tightening around his neck.

Archimedes

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

We're here so graduate students know we have housing on campus.

We really don't want to give Greenspan a grade yet. You want to wait a year or two to see whether the seeds turn to weeds.

Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Ed O'Neill

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

Elizabeth Blackwell

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

David Bowie

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

She wanted to graduate early. She had high priorities, and she knew what she wanted. At one time, she said she wanted to be a veterinarian.

She's really stepped up with the graduation of their star players from last season. She has a real nice step back move and can shoot out the three. She's really a player that, as a sophomore, has become their leader.

She seems to think that I'm already doing what her graduate students are going to school for.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Brian Kernighan

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

Charlie Trotter

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.