Graduate Quotes - page 9

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard. (Mary Karr)
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! View quote
Maxine Kumin
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting. View quote
Michael Arndt
Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years. View quote
Michael Eisner
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. View quote
Miles Teller
Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending. View quote
Peter Guber
Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University. View quote
Patricia Clarkson
I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court. View quote
Richard Land
One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate. View quote
Rick Majerus
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s. View quote
Robert Darnton
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. (Robert M. Hutchins)
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school. View quote
Robert Shapiro
That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children. View quote
Rocco Buttiglione
You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble. View quote
Roy Yamaguchi
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s. View quote
Ruth J. Simmons
When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world. View quote
Raul Ruiz
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries. View quote
Richard Elman
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. View quote
Sidney Altman
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics. View quote
Sidney Altman
From a young age, I wanted to play in the NBA. Oh well... It was when I was a senior in college that I fell for film, but even then, it wasn't documentaries. It wasn't until I ended up in graduate school at Southern Illinois University that I really discovered documentaries and thought that maybe that would be my calling. View quote
Steve James
We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting. (Steve Spurrier)
Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech. View quote
Susan Wojcicki
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research. View quote
Sandra Lerner
Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy. View quote
Tom Freston
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair. View quote
Tracie Thoms