Quotes for All
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn’t possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn’t have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities. Gail Collins
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion. Gaddis Smith
In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it’s just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up. Gabriel Campisi
It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another. G. Wilson Knight
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology. Evgeny Morozov
When I got the job on ‘Lost,’ I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea. Evangeline Lilly
After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working. Evan Williams
Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, … Read more
The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars. Ernest L. Boyer
It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve. … Read more