#college

Cole radiated that cool, bad boy sort of confidence—the kind that left most women flustered and ready. ↗

— Carrie Butler

#new-adult #new-adult-romance #paranormal-romance #romance #new-adult

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I should be as free as another [with sight and hearing]. Its people, scenery, manners, joys, and tragedies should be living tangible interpreters of the real world. The lecture halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and wise, and I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom... But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined. Many of the dreams that had delighted my young inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college. The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures – solitude, books and imagination – outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day. ↗

— Helen Keller

#education #learning #stress #thought #beauty

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#emphasized #game #how #jordan #learned

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bartender #college #dad #fifth #go

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#college #coverage #graduated #i #living

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#because #before #brainwashing #choice #college

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ↗

— Fred Allen

#back #case #college #day #got

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#daughter #had #i #me #teenager

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#college education #does #educated #education #just

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. ↗

— Eric Bana

#college #english #going #had #i