“College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.” IfsWould BeHumanityGamesLossInterestingStudentsFootballCollegeBrokenArmsHumorousIncreaseLegsNecksFacultyCollege FootballTrustees Author:H. L. Mencken
“Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.” PeopleKindMomentsInterestDecisionInterestingRecordsCollegeBandHandleManagersLabelsRecord LabelsEarly 20s Author:Noah Baumbach
“Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.” GirlInterestingCollegeSuicideTragicMentalityMisinterpretedAnnie HallPlathCollege Girl Book:Annie Hall: scénario bilingue Source: Annie Hall: scénario bilingue
“We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenDifferentAmericaSuccessInterestingCollegeSucceedPercentAgingKeep GoingPuzzlesEighty Author:Gertrude Stein
“It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.” YearsChristianLastsReligiousInterestingFourCollegeTenNotesAddressesWarningFarewellTextbooksMinusFarewell Address Author:David Barton
“I heard this today and I thought this was fascinating and interesting. President Bush has two daughters, two beautiful daughters, and they may work on their father's presidential campaign after they get out of college and I thought, well, that's a pretty good move because in this economy, they won't be able to find real jobs.” WellsMayTwoRealTodayAbleJobsBeautifulMovingFatherPresidentInterestingEconomyHeardCollegeDaughterCampaignsPresidentialFascinatingPresident BushReal JobsPresidential CampaignTwo DaughtersBeautiful Daughter Author:David Letterman
“If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.” IfsThinkingKnowsNextInterestingCompanyTeamCollegeBest Things Author:Sam Altman
“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.” GivingIdeasBodyArtistFoundNamesMy OwnInterestingEffectsObjectsCollegeStrangeForeignersMaking UpFound Objects Author:Gavin Turk
“Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was very proud of him, but when he said, 'Dad, I want to be in a play,' he had a bit part. I went to see it and Michael said, 'Dad, how was I?' I said, 'You were terrible.' I thought he would go on to be a lawyer and in three months, he was in another play and I went and, I must admit, he was great. I think he has been good in everything he's done.” ThinkingWantHas BeensMadeSaidDonePlayThreeActorsBitsInterestingCollegeMonthsGoes OnProudDadTerribleLawyerVery InterestingThree MonthsGreat ActorsGoing To CollegeProud Of Him Author:Kirk Douglas
“I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.” WantFeelsSchoolJobsInterestingClassStudyCollegeLuckyHigh SchoolBasics Author:Tavi Gevinson
“I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.” ThinkingDoneWould BeSchoolFunChallengesInterestingStudentsCollegeSeriousDegreesHigh SchoolEconomicsLawyerHeadings Author:Jay Roach
“I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting.” KnowsWritingMeanSchoolFunParentInterestInterestingDealsClassTeamCollegeHigh SchoolTennisDiscoveringHomework Author:David Foster Wallace
“Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.” PeopleWritingInterestingCollege Author:Joel Stein
“I think in general, it's just an interesting age to be at, after college. You spend so much of your life, being on this academic trajectory - and then when it's done - all of a sudden the whole world is maybe open to you. But you're the one that's really in charge of your path. And that can be a really scary thing, I think.” ThinkingWorldDoneWholeAgeInterestingPathCollegeScaryWhole WorldAcademicTrajectoryScary ThingsReally Scary Author:Chris Baio
“I think the other thing that's interesting about the women's peloton is that if you ask what their background is most have played college sports, and a lot of times have come off of injury and have gotten on a bike. A lot of us start post college in our mid 20's unlike in Europe where they start 10 years before that.” IfsThinkingYearsAsksSportsInterestingCollegeEuropeBackgroundsPostsInjuryBikeCollege Sports Author:Kristin Armstrong
“It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure.” ThinkingLooksInterestingEconomicCollegeAspectStructureEverydayEducatedThinking Deeply Author:Bell Hooks
“It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.” BookNationsInterestingCollegeMy FriendsVery InterestingFast FoodInteresting BookFast Food Nation Author:Wilmer Valderrama