College Roommate Quotes

#1. My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So ... you're black.'

Al Roker

#2. She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.

Barbara Delinsky

#3. I used to arm wrestle my roommate in college. Based on that, I'm in pretty good shape.

Dasha Zhukova

#4. Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.

William Herbert Sheldon

#5. Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close.

Aimee Bender

#6. I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

Kim Raver

#7. I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

Joan Walsh Anglund

#8. The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

Tom Robbins

#9. Somewhere out there, a higher
form of sadism won the first round.
Well, screw that. I'm not ready to be
pwned.

Clyde DeSouza

#10. With a stranger he felt a renewal of hope because they could not say that he had not done what he had promised, and yielding to his charm would give him a fresh start -

Virginia Woolf

#11. Also, he had the kind of mustache a college roommate of hers used to say looked like it had crawled up to find a warm spot to die.

Lorrie Moore

#12. I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

Sheryl Crow

#13. Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

Bill Burr

#14. Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.

Kathryn Minshew

#15. You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Anne Roiphe

#16. Suddenly,I could picture Tinker on the back of a horse somewhere: at the edge of the treeline under a towering sky ... at his college roommate's ranch, perhaps ... where rhey hunted deer with antique rifles and with dogs that were better bred than me.

Amor Towles

#17. If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don't be a victim of your circumstance.

Gary Keller

#18. Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

Horace

#19. The qualities we appreciate in a character are not the same as those we would look for in a college roommate.

Margaret Atwood