Graduate school Quotes

“PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

— Michael Eisner

“I am still enjoying the success.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

— Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.

— Margaret Heffernan

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

— Howard G. Hendricks

Getting into graduate school was pure luck.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

— Emily Yoffe

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

— Donald Ray Pollock

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

— Susan Choi

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

— John Piper

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

— Michael Arndt

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

— Ed Reed

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in…

— Elin Hilderbrand

Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because…

— Susan Minot

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more…

— Andy Rooney

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it,…

— Andrea Anders

“She has decided all university campuses are alike- the sense of possibility and stasis. She thinks this too: all graduate students, if…

— Danzy Senna

I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I…

— Anna Journey

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing…

— Lorrie Moore

I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in…

— Janeane Garofalo

I started in the law; and the study of law, when it precedes the study of economics, gives you a set of…

— Robert Reich

As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and…

— Mike Colter

When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a…

— E. L. Konigsburg

I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a…

— Stephen Dobyns

I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of…

— Erik Madigan Heck

I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people.…

— Missy Mazzoli

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

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that…

— Katherine Paterson

“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

Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without…

— Toni Morrison

The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral…

— Noam Chomsky

“The uninitiated often assumed that under graduate students were at the bottom rung, but undergrads were the paying customers, or at least…

— Neve Maslakovic

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

“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