#university

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946. ↗

— Henry Taube

#after #aspects #basic #became #between

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#access #afford #based #behind #believe

I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure. ↗

— Kimbra

#album #back #contract #french #go

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#after #biochemistry #class #course #degree

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#california #certainly #experiences #his #much

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#any #because #college #considered #could

We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#big #big fan #chancellor #discover #distinguished

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#education #go #i #out #university

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#during #go #time #university #war