Astonishment Quote by Barton Gellman

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of…

— Chris Crutcher

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

— Margaret Trudeau

I actually graduated two years early.

— Ava Michelle

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

— G. H. Hardy

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be…

— Jasper Fforde

Can't believe I'm a senior, I feel like I just walked through the doors of high school like yesterday.

— Anonymous

I'm so pleased, at the age of 34, that I still haven't spent one millisecond missing high school.

— Jamie Demetriou

There have been times when I didn't quite make my deadline.

— Akira Toriyama

For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In…

— Adam Grant

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

— Khushwant Singh

I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

— Derek Jeter