I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...
Tom PettyTags: attributed-no-source leisure college stupidity work youth
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: writing college semicolons
But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
Chuck PalahniukTags: college student self-absorption impressed pigeons synapses toxicology
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
Dodie SmithOf a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)
Ferrol SamsTags: college greek fraternity mercer mercer-university
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
Michelle RichmondTags: write college writer degree
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Herman MelvilleAt Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.
John DanielTags: college
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Shelby FooteTags: college library university
My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: writing college semi-colons
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