“In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.” ComedyToo MuchTeacherCollege Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.” UseHandsToo MuchCollegeNotesTheatre Author:Susan Sullivan
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.” WorldLittlesSelfFactsMotherReadingSpaceBoysGoneToo MuchCollegeSonPrayingBlessingLettersFilledWideBackgroundsShirtsButtonsAttendingMaternityOld Letters Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“First tweet, best tweet, I always think. I try not to work them too much or else they get Pie Dough Disease, which is where the dough has been to too much college and doesn't understand that it is dough anymore and refuses to be shaped. Pie Dough Disease! Poems get that too.” ThinkingTryingFirstsHas BeensToo MuchCollegeDiseaseRefusePieTweetDough Author:Patricia Lockwood
“I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.” YearsTwoToo MuchFailingCollegeDecidedNightmareTwo YearsExam Author:Gautam Adani
“I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.” IfsWould BeSexToo MuchTeacherStudentsCollegeWorried Author:Dan Chaon
“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
“The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.” ThinkingArtSchoolSuccessfulToo MuchCollegeFineInvolvedBeing SuccessfulFine ArtsArt School Author:Syd Barrett
“If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.” IfsTryingEasyToo MuchPlayerCollegeSeriousLike YouCoachesCoachingLimbo Author:Geno Auriemma