“One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.” ShouldTwoHomeTogetherCoursesSexCausesCoupleProjectsTestsUltimateFinalsDivorceImprovementBoardsEngagedKitchenWorking TogetherWhy NotFinishingMandatesBasementsExamIncompatibilityLeading CausesKitchen SinksHome ImprovementFinal Exams Author:Mike Rosen
“Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.” BelieveHardCoursesCareersFootballFinalsRelatedLooking BackExamHard To BelieveFinal ExamsBusiness Related Author:Kenny Cunningham
“If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.” IfsAsksAnswersCompanyClassTaughtInternetFinalsExamFinal Exams Author:Warren Buffett
“Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.” GamesHoursFiveFinalsChessExamChess GameFinal Exams Author:Bobby Fischer
“Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. Peer pressure, acne, final exams, seven little tiny hairs on your upper lip. Luckily, the girls never noticed your infantile moustache, 'cos they were hyptonised by the fire engine sized zit on your forehead.” YearsLittlesGirlFireWorstHairPressureSevenFinalsLipsTinyTeenagerThirtyEnginesPeersForeheadsThirty YearsExamPeer PressureInfantileMoustacheAcneBeing A TeenagerZitsFinal Exams Author:Christopher Titus
“So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love.” KindEndsReasonAliveCapacityFinalsExamCapacity To LoveFinal Exams Author:Marci Shimoff
“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.” YearsDifferentLastsAnswersStudentsFinalsPhysicsLast YearDrsExamFinal Exams Author:Albert Einstein
“In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingBelieveIdeasDoneCharacterUsedCertainCoursesI BelieveFinalsBehaveDevicesExamAdjectivesChaucerFinal Exams Book:A Circle of Quiet Source: A Circle of Quiet
“I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.” PeopleThinkingWholeHumorSeemsFunnyComedyBibleFinalsWittyGetting OlderExamFunny ReligiousCrammingFinal ExamsAvoiding Death Author:George Carlin
“Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business” SchoolGrowsDyingStudentsLessonsSuicidePatientFinalsBoundsCheatingLeapUnfinishedExamAssistingUnfinished BusinessFinal Exams Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.” SaidTimeLeftClassMorningTakenMinutesAcceptanceStudentsTenFinalsStartingAcceptedClockProfessorsKillersColleaguesPreciseIncidentsAdvancingAmusedExamOne MinuteErasersFinal Exams Author:Vicki Davis
“Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.” MayRealSeriousEvolutionUltimateFinalsAlternativesExtinctionTranscendenceExamFinal Exams Author:Joel Garreau
“Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.” MomentsHumanityUniverseRaceFinalsOblivionUtopiaExamContinuanceRelaysRelay RacesFinal Exams Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn't, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a filmmaker.'” WritingMindFirstsMeanLittlesSaidBookMomentsBigsKidsSchoolReadingStuffTeacherHappenedPagesDecidedYeahFinalsTrackFilmmakerReportsTiedImpressedTurning PointsRailroadsExamRailroad TracksHoudiniFinal Exams Author:Tim Burton
“You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.” ThinkingKnowsWantWellsMayIdeasFeelingsNovelMonthsSixFinalsRetiringNow And ThenSix MonthsExamFinal Exams Author:Wilbur Smith