“Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
It was really hard to get into graduate school at Texas. We had trouble getting grad assistants. — Mack Brown Copy Share Image
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and… — Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
“I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school.… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has probably been more widely read—and more widely misinterpreted—than any other book in the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
