"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back." - Fred AllenTweet
"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries." - H. G. WellsTweet
"A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials." - Lee PaceTweet
"Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain." - Gordon BrownTweet
"My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could." - George WeinbergTweet
"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates." - R. Lee ErmeyTweet
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas." - M. H. AbramsTweet
"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research." - Alan DundesTweet
"You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy." - Neil SimonTweet
"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it." - James TobinTweet