
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