#graduation

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ↗

— Richard Halliburton

#direction #education #graduation #guts #humor

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#became #doing #few #few women #first

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#big #boy #decided #degree #famous

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#about #arts #because #business #degrees

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#about #dorm #graduate #i #me

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#before #chemistry #department #faculty #father

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #bring #completion #course #during

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? ↗

— Bobby Heenan

#cow #dakota #graduate #hand #left

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games. ↗

— Faith Hill

#ball games #children #everybody #football #football games

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#degrees #diplomas #god #look #medals