a hundred failures mean a thousand successes

“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”

— Maggie Nelson

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

— Justin Chadwick

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton

We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day…

— Adora Svitak

I went through the whole student revolution thing and the last thing you wanted was people to think you were Friedrich von Trapp.

— Nicholas Hammond

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent,…

— Luanne Rice

As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than…

— Elizabeth Diller

I was a terrible student. I didn't graduate magna cum laude: I graduated 'Thank you, Lawdy!'

— Shannon Sharpe

I been partyn alot.. Oh freakin well! Im single and a college student so Im living my life!

— Anonymous

Finding out your crush isn't at school today and feeling like you wasted a perfectly good outfit.

— Anonymous

You're a constant student, as a musician.

— Joshua Bell

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in…

— Abraham Verghese

“Taking a final pleasure in what the wind can neither proclaim nor destroy, I am a student of nightfall, I claim no other profession.”

— Loren Eiseley

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to…

— Josie Loren

My craft's been rising. I'm a student of the game and I'm still growing.

— Jay Rock