I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
— Anne Lamott
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
— Ambrose Bierce
Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.
— Samuel Alito
I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool. — Peter Jacobson
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. — Tony Blair
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.' — Jack Horner
'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score. — Hans Zimmer
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. — Michael Dell
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct. — Leslie Marmon Silko
I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. — David Livermore
I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A. — Gayle Forman
When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school. — James Altucher
The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. — Darren Hardy
There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job. — Jesse Kellerman
I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. — Taylor Swift
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week. — Garth Risk Hallberg
If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita
If want to succeed, you must work to overcome the obstacles on your path. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools. — Andy Rooney
In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there. — Melody Beattie
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. — Robert Fulghum
It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's. — Kellie Martin
At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work. — Alice McDermott
God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate. — Gene Edwards
I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real. — Charles Baxter
I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school. — Ed Oxenbould
