• "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 Simon Tweet
• "The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner." - Martha Reeves Tweet
• "I have actually five honorary degrees." - Katherine Dunham Tweet
• "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 Pace Tweet
• "My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology." - Kenneth G. Wilson Tweet
• "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know." - T. S. Eliot Tweet
• "I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one." - Jim Jarmusch Tweet
• "It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree." - Bobby Scott Tweet
• "I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree." - Shannon Lucid Tweet
• "If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation." - Renee Olstead Tweet