University Finished Quotes

#1. When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

Ben Barnes

#2. On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

J.K. Rowling

#3. 509. A word uncovers the truth; it can also be used to conceal it.

Alija Izetbegovic

#4. Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.

David Allen

#5. Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils Unseen and Exotic Plants Unleashed, to name but a few.

H.B. Bolton

#6. A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.

Chen-Ning Yang

#7. All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Nancy Springer

#8. I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.

Becky G

#9. Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

Ryohgo Narita

#10. He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

John Owen

#11. Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's
like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

John Green

#12. I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.

Dick Murphy

#13. We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.

Tom Morello

#14. Amazing how much more you appreciate the little things when all the big things are taken from you.

Marilyn Grey

#15. Because his mother never met a boundary she didn't want to cross.

Susan Mallery

#16. What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

Donatella Versace

#18. I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will be a totally different person tomorrow,' but it never worked.

Sarah Dessen

#19. Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought about if we wanted it enough?

Alaa Al Aswany