I’ll tell you why English teachers go to college for four years. So they can make stupid little kids write stupid essays on what they did all stupid summer! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Charlie Brown.
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion. – Hank Johnson
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn’t. – Harry Mathews
I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in ‘The Seagull’ with no experience and went on to do five plays there. – Helen McCrory
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men’s wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I’m convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie. – George Zimmer
While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber. – Gene Weingarten
My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It’s a good, safe spot to start, you know? – Hannibal Buress
I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain’t got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs. – Gladys Knight
I feel usually the strength of my game is my driving, and over the past – even since I was in college and everything, my short game has been the thing that’s let me down. – Graham DeLaet
My first few films were institutional comedies, and you’re on pretty safe ground when you’re dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club. – Harold Ramis
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. – Harold E. Varmus
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn’t have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit. – Heather Dubrow
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that’s how I always read ‘The Tempest,’ for example. – Hanya Yanagihara
I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. – Hasnat Khan
I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn’t a difficult thing to pull out. – Hayden Panettiere
I’m taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I’m taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can’t tell you how much it’s not me. – Helen Hunt
That’s when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything – you know, all that. – Hasil Adkins
Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it’s where I first started putting on shows. – Hannibal Buress
When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick’s Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists. – Greg Fitzsimmons
My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won’t get it until I’m 18, so I’ll use it for college. – Heather O’Rourke
It’s hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who’s a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic. – Grant Morrison
Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one’s laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear. – Garrett Neff
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don’t just say white. They give you a math equation. ‘Well, I’m a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.’ – Hari Kondabolu
For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn’t planning ahead. I just didn’t think about it too much. – Gwynne Shotwell
I wasn’t the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college. – Gwyneth Paltrow
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too. – George Grove