"I applied for the University of Life. Didn't…" — David Nicholls

"I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades."

— David Nicholls

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151 Quotes by David Nicholls

David Nicholls has 151 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and…
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the…
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be…
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed…
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious…
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more…
Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed…
And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into…

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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I… — Michele Bachmann
Theology is a science of mind applied to God. — Henry Ward Beecher
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right… — Miguel de Cervantes
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Theology is only thought applied to religion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and… — Meg Whitman
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. — George S. Patton
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not… — Unknown Author

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