“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.” YearsPlayKidsGamesTeamStreetsCollegeSonPicksDecidedLet MeParksMy SonHockeyBackupLacrosseGoaliesHockey TeamRiverside Author:John Katzman
“The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from its independent thinkers: Striking all existing public and private debt from the books across the "entire planet"; elimination of all international borders; free college education; a guaranteed "living wage" for all regardless of employment; an end to free trade; trillions in additional spending for infrastructure and ecological restoration; and ending the fossil fuel economy.” WantBookEndsEconomyStreetsCollegePlanetsWallDemandIndependentTradeInternationalDebtSpendingEmploymentBordersConfusedFuelCollectivesThinkerFossilsInfrastructureRestorationFossil FuelEcologicalEliminationFree TradeCollege EducationLiving WageOccupy Wall StreetFuel Economy Author:Mike Rosen
“The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.” PersonsBookThreeNamesPartyStreetsCollegeWindMembersRainWindowGreenWineHeavySatResortsSweepingDrearyDesertedDublinDashingWindow Panes Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)
“Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.” PersonsDoeSchoolGoneStreetsCollegeElitesSmarter Author:Vikas Swarup
“I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!” WritingYearsBelieveSchoolI BelieveVoicePerfectStreetsCollegeHigh SchoolI Believe InSingersPianoCheatingCompositionSongwritersRhymeSinger SongwritersViolaSesame StreetNo Cheating Author:Sarah Weeks
“Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.” WellsMadeKidsRoomsClassAirStreetsStyleCollegeCornersBreathePhrasesCompositionLivelyManualsFreshmanDialectSlangStreet CornersCollege Freshmen Author:Donna Tartt
“The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.” CompanyStreetsCollegeWallInternetProveMajorsDumbNutsProve To MeFlunking Author:John C. Dvorak
“Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.” PeopleArtEndsStreetsStudentsCollegeSceneDesignerArt Students Author:Boy George
“If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.” IfsRealSchoolLawCareersPlansStreetsCollegeWallGraduatesLaw SchoolCollege Graduates Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.” IfsWayNeedsCountryAbleJobsUnitedStreetsCreationCollegeWallCitizensMajorsElectionCrisisWingsClimateClimate ChangeListsOur CountryCandidatesAddressesMinimumRight WingBillionaireMinimum WageCollege EducationJob CreationCitizens UnitedAffordability Author:Bernie Sanders
“I did in fact take a couple of classes at my local college here in NYC. But I did it unwillingly and without enthusiasm. That is until a protest broke out in the streets around campus against rising tuition costs.” FactsClassStreetsCollegeCoupleCostLocalsEnthusiasmBrokeRisingProtestCampusNycTuition Author:Lewis Schiff
“In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.” PeopleWantedWhiteStreetsCollegeWallMy FriendsPortraitsBathroomGraffitiPolaroidsWhite Walls Author:Ryan McGinley
“I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare and the like, and didn't get to college until almost 21. That's when I officially got licensed and ordained, right after that.” PeopleYearsSchoolFatherFourStreetsCollegeWelfareFour Years Author:Michael Eric Dyson