379 quotes found
“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”
“Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.”
“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
“I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life.”
“I think back to what Landon said about heartbreak, that if you dont love the person, they cant break your heart. Hardin repeatedly breaks my heart, even when I dont think there are any more pieces ...”
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”
“GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything.IvyMac: You can. That's what friends do.GrayG: I've never been friends with a girl before.IvyMac: I'm honored to be your first.”
“College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?”
“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”
“I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.”
“I wondered ...if meeting people with creativity and passion when you were at an impressionable enough age actually kind of ruined you for life among normal people. For a long time, I'd searched the...”
“I dont think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a whilejust once in a whilethere was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, an...”
“Self-education is lifelong curiosity.”
“WRITERS ARE "SPIRITIAL VENTRILOQUIST" WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE PAPER TALK!”
“THE BROKEN HEART STILL HAS HEART BEATS. THOUGH YOU MAY FEEL LIKE DEATH, YOU ARE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK!”
“Do not dwell on the past. Focus on the precious moments and gracious future.”
“And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.”
“People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job wi...”
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
“My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.”
