Dropped Out Of College Quotes

#1. After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.

Alice Dreger

#2. I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

Brody Jenner

#3. Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

Daniel Snyder

#4. I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Lizz Winstead

#5. I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

ASAP Ferg

#6. I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater. I dropped out of college and moved to New York and studied theater at The Neighborhood Playhouse. I did that for a couple of years and then got an agent.

Linden Ashby

#7. I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

Theophilus London

#8. I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

Rob Lowe

#9. I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

Biz Stone

#10. Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

Ryan Holmes

#11. I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.

Jason Woliner

#12. I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

John Mackey

#13. I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#14. When I came home, I was asked to put my pictures in a photo exhibit at the Cinematography College ... my pictures won first prize. I began to ask myself what I was doing, and why. A few months after the exhibit, I dropped out of college, left my wife and began to write this book.

Vladislav Tamarov

#15. I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

Amanda Hocking

#16. I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Jamaica Kincaid

#17. Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

Avey Tare

#18. I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

Steve Jobs

#19. College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#20. I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

Dave Grohl

#21. I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

Caitlin Rose

#22. I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

Erich Bergen

#23. In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.

Stephen Beal

#24. I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

Zach Condon

#25. I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

James Green Somerville

#26. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

Steve Jobs

#27. I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

Anne Lamott

#28. Wages for the typical graduate of a four-year college have dropped more than 7 percent since 2000, and

Anonymous

#29. We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

Holly Johnson

#30. Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

Paul F. Tompkins

#31. There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".

John Denver

#32. I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

Patricia Cornwell