Grad Quotes
37 quotes by 31 authors
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We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know…
— Mitch McConnell
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As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.
— Thomas Haden Church
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When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I…
— Wolf Blitzer
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The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.
— Jonathan Kellerman
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So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it:
— George Saunders
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Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that…
— George Saunders
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Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause…
— George Saunders
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And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU…
— George Saunders
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Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like…
— George Saunders
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Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start…
— George Saunders
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I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school
— Andy Hertzfeld
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp.…
— Aaron Koblin
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Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students…
— Craig Clevenger
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Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want…
— Mike Teti
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Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.
— Barack Obama
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Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.
— David Burge
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My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and…
— Ana Ortiz
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Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside…
— Dale Archer
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want…
— Hank Azaria
Who Wrote These Grad Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 37 Grad Quotes, led by these top contributors: