“One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.” LittlesReasonIndividualEnjoyTeamCollegeBasketballReason WhyOrientationCollege Basketball Author:Len Elmore
“My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.” LittlesTwoHardHandsJobsFoundFatherHouseHurtMy OwnCollegeGrewDadGrew UpMy DadHeavyDirtyShowersSoapLavaTwo JobsAffordingHeavy Things Author:Mike Huckabee
“I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.” LittlesWantedCollegeMonthsSixExpectationsLondonHatedParisDesperateSix Months Author:Mackenzie Davis
“The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island, and be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it's hard to tell.” PeopleWritingLittlesCountryHardFactsStudentsCollegeTownsIslandsEmpoweringAffectedOther CountriesCoastConnectingRhode Island Author:Adam Braver
“I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious.” LittlesSchoolCollegeSeriousProductions Author:Peter Jacobson
“There were people I knew that came to college and had never drank before, and never partied, and maybe got a little bit too carried away with it when they did finally get out of the house... I feel like I got that stuff out of my system when I was sixteen and knew to balance things - but at the same time - it's not like I was out getting my medical degree. Playing in a band, you can still have plenty of fun!” PeopleFeelsLittlesStillsHouseFunStuffBitsCollegeBalanceBandDegreesLittle BitMedicalPlentyDrankSixteenCarried Away Author:Chris Baio
“I did it a little bit in college, but now I've been doing it more. But yeah, it's not, I think you can definitely have a sense of humour about it. Like a lot of the time I'll finish my set with 'Sandstorm' by Darude - do you know that song? That's a funny song. People also go apeshit when you play it. But at the same time, it's not like the whole thing is a joke.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesPlayWholeSongBitsCollegeHumourLittle BitJokesYeahDo You KnowSandstormsFunny Song Author:Chris Baio
“Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.” PeopleChildrenLittlesImportantChoicesAbilityPayTelevisionCollegeOur ChildrenSignificantLuxuryYour ChildrenSignificant Things Author:Patricia Arquette
“Tony Gonzalez is one of the best ever and changed the way tight ends have transitioned themselves from college to the NFL. He can do a little bit of everything. He's a guy who you want to model yourself after.” WayWantLittlesEndsGuyBitsCan DoChangedCollegeLittle BitModelsNflBest Ever Author:Virgil Green
“In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.” ThinkingLittlesCollegePoetGenreInterpretationEssays Author:John D'Agata
“As far as the fashion of mod 60's goes...I've always loved it. I bought a mod dress while still in college for an audition I had for Marsha Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie. It may have been a little too mod for the American 60's, but I think it worked just fine. I ended up wearing it a lot and it became one of my favorite pieces.” ThinkingMayLittlesHas BeensStillsPiecesFashionCollegeFineDressesMy FavoriteBunchAuditionsBradyModsBrady Bunch Author:Erica Schroeder
“I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.” LittlesI CanSchoolCommunityStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolLifestyleHatedCommunity College Author:Zach Condon
“I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.” IfsKnowsLittlesEnoughWould BeSchoolSufferingHateWorstCollegeI HateJuniorsJunior High Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.” LittlesDoneUsedRecordsCollegeLabelsGigsRecord LabelsDemos Author:Norah Jones
“My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.” LittlesHardBeliefParentPoorTeacherCollegeHard WorkGrewGrew UpImportanceMy SisterStressedImportance Of EducationPoor Family Author:Samuel Alito
“In college, a group of guys labelled me a "righteous little beaver." Again, I was slightly pissed because it seemed offensive and misdirected, but when I learned that beavers swim upstream, I realized that maybe it was fitting after all.” LittlesGuyGroupsCollegeI RealizedSwimRighteousOffensiveFittingBeavers Author:Amy Richards
“I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.” ThinkingGivingLittlesEnoughMightTodayYoungToo MuchEffectsDangerIdentityCollegePoetLosingHappeningsImportanceMarkBusyWork OutGreat MenHatsJuiceToo BusyRushingLecturing Author:Conrad Aiken
“I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.” LittlesPlayFunBitsCollegeCoupleLittle BitGolfGrandsonLacrosse Author:Jack Nicklaus
“There was a little bit of hesitancy about staying in Pittsburgh and not moving away for college, but that didn't last long. It was right in line with what I wanted, so I auditioned there and it wasn't a tough decision.” LittlesLongWantedLastsMovingBitsLinesDecisionCollegeLittle BitToughStayingPittsburghMoving AwayTough Decisions Author:Zachary Quinto
“I came back and decided that I wanted to go to college for acting and got my family on board. My mom, who was a single mom, was a little reticent, but I think after that summer [in the Governor's School], she saw a shift in me and realized that it was something I wanted more than just a hobby.” ThinkingLittlesWantedSchoolActingSawsCollegeMomSummerMy FamilyDecidedMy MomBoardsGovernorsHobbiesSingle Mom Author:Zachary Quinto
“The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told, they probably suffered a little less than most other groups.” LittlesFactsPainGroupsCollegeMassiveRecessionsGradGreat Recession Author:Kevin Drum
“In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.” LittlesArtStillsSchoolArtistAbilityTeacherTalentCollegeLessonsHigh SchoolAppreciateBlueVery GoodEnthusiasmLandscapeTeensHungPortraitsEarnestEccentricRibbonsRenderingStill LifeArt TeacherWatercolorsSalieri Author:Christina Baker Kline
“I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really know the place well. When I started following soldiers and their families back home, it provoked a lot of the questions about who we are as a nation, questions I realized couldn't be explored through the more limited framework of looking at the military at war and at home.” KnowsWellsLittlesWarCountryHomeNationsMy OwnMilitaryCollegeMovedSoldierFollowingI RealizedWho We AreFrameworkBack HomeSuburbsProvoked Author:Peter van Agtmael
“I don't think anything can substitute long talks, and long talks are somehow never as easy to schedule again as they were in school, when most people - at least in my little socioeconomic corner of the world - live not with their families or sexual partners, but with same-sex friends. I really miss that from college. I never really thought at the time about how things would never be that way again.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLittlesLongSchoolSexEasyMissingCollegeCornersPartnersSubstitutesSchedulesCorners Of The World Author:Elif Batuman
“Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKindLittlesArtSchoolBitsSpaceStudyCollegeNeededSafeLittle BitHigh SchoolPerformingGenerousSaneJuniorsSaxophoneJunior HighPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon
“I had a lot of bad habits in how I was playing the horn. And I slowly, in high school and college, started to recognize them and get them a little better. But it was not an overnight process, I'll say that.” LittlesSchoolProcessCollegeHabitHigh SchoolHornsBad Habits Author:Jon Gordon
“Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.” KnowsLittlesMightKidsSchoolCasesCollegeFitHigh SchoolNobleTinyWorldviewFiltersCoherenceIgnoble Author:Jane Jacobs