Art Quote by Doug Lansky

“I graduated on a May afternoon. When the director of ceremonies ended her speech, I had no desire to triumphantly fling my graduation cap…

— Ken Ilgunas

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw…

— Neil Gaiman

“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep…

— David Foster Wallace

“am not a well-schooled woman. Instead, I have learned my lessons from experience, mistakes, and the heat of battle. If ever there was a…

— Chris Kreski

“In a now famous commencement speech at Stanford University, Steve Jobs urged the graduating class to “stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Never let go of…

— Sophia Amoruso

“I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students…

— Adam Begley

“She asks to see my diploma, holds it in her hands and smiles, reads it out loud before handing it back to me, and…

— Kenny Porpora

“we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold, and had our teachers scorned, instead of aiding us, we…

— Emily Brontë

“College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty…

— Nenia Campbell

“I can't believe we have to keep playacting until I graduate. It's a shame we can't just admit that we have failed family living,…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Don’t you know that’s what college is about...students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they…

— A.L. Jackson

“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the…

— John F. Kennedy