“Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door” HeartBookThreeMorningDoorsCollegeThousandAppreciateRiversCopiesClassroomThrillGood BookAprilGeorgiaDean Book:Hawaii: A Novel Source: Hawaii: A Novel
“I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.” MenScienceInterestNaturalDoorsStudentsCollegeTypeAmbitionChiefsFrankDevotedMy AmbitionWilsonNatural HistoryGood StudentsHart Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.” ReasonWaitingDoorsTalentCollegeAreasJewAdvertisingCorporationsAgencyPool1930sAdvertising Agencies Author:Jerry Robinson
“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.” PeopleWritingKindFallFoundEasyDifficultActingDoorsTelevisionCollegeBe GoodSellingCablesSalesmanFall Into PlaceSubscriptionEverything Falls Into Place Author:Greg Kinnear
“Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of nowhere, out in Jersey. Even there, there's sometimes problems. College students like journey out there and show up at 11 o'clock at night, on my porch, looking into the door not saying anything. My wife and I are sitting there; it's really creepy.” SometimesShowsProblemNightGuyWifeDoorsJourneyStudentsCollegeSittingMy WifeClockJerseyCreepyOther GuysPorchCollege StudentsReally Creepy Author:Lou Reed
“I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.” ThinkingMindChildrenLittlesMadeSchoolPainRememberFacesGirlNationsRealizingForgetPoorBoysKnowingDoorsCollegeNever ForgetMexican Author:Lyndon B. Johnson