Best Sophomore Year Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.”

Thinking Years Influence Profound Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Conrad Aiken

“I've seen him be successful throwing the football his sophomore year, I've seen that. I've seen him react through adversity, I have seen that. I'd never seen him react to a new system because we didn't have one. I'd say that'd be the most impressive thing.”

Years Successful Football Adversity Being Successful Throwing Impressive Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Tommy Bowden

“My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'”

Years Firsts Two Shows Jobs Acting Week College First Time Paid Actresses Festivals Juniors Two Weeks Julius Utah Sophomore Junior Year Sophomore Year Calpurnia

Author:Katy Mixon

“I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.”

Years Shows Wanted Moving Acting Careers College Projects Encouragement Finals University Profession Pursuit Pursue Professors One Woman Sophomore Sophomore Year Deacons

Author:April Parker Jones

“My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.”

Years Team Football One Day Football Team Sophomore Sophomore Year Tryouts

Author:Mo Rocca

“I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.”

Years Hard Kids Wanted Challenges Class Students College University Beast Relentless Indiana Freshman Sophomore Mba Sophomore Year

Author:Mark Cuban

“I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.”

Years Ends Play Able Growing Up Growing Fans Juniors Alabama Sophomore Junior Year Sophomore Year

Author:Bo Jackson

“My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.”

Years Enough Running Smart Miles Senior Juniors Second Place Sophomore Senior Year Sophomore Year

Author:Bo Jackson

“I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.”

Years Littles Play Wanted School Acting Dad High School Police My Dad Officers Police Officer Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Chad Lindberg

“I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.”

Years School Company College Couple Summer University Journalism Contracts Ballet San Francisco Scholarship Indiana Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Joan Chen

“I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.”

Years States Three College Normal University Sunday Apartment Buddy Campus Carolina North Carolina Thursday Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Scotty McCreery

“The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.”

Way Writing Years Firsts Found Fiction Class First Time Fiction Writing Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:John Brandon

“I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.”

Years Stills Whole Three Class Cutting Week Students Internet Paper Very Good Awful Grades Papers Disillusioned Sophomore Good Students Good Grades Sophomore Year

Author:Zach Condon

“So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.”

Ifs Should Years Class If I Could Senior Anatomy Hacks Sophomore Sophomore Year Senior Class

Author:James Earl Jones

“And once I was in college, about - maybe the end of my first semester of my sophomore year, I realized that college just was not my jam and that I felt like I was learning more when is actually on set. And I think a lot of that had to do with - I was working while I was in college. I was on "227," so I didn't get a chance to really be immersed in the culture of my school.”

Thinking Years Firsts Ends School Culture Felt Chance College I Realized Jam Sophomore Semester Learning More Sophomore Year

Author:Regina King

“In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on Wall Street. I was lucky enough to have been in the business during a stock market boom but just before the fax machine appeared on the scene, let alone email and the Internet. As a result, the messenger business was booming.”

“Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.”

“I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.”

“But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.”

“I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35.”

Years Ends Done Whole Kids Wanted School Guy Three Next Four Plans College Married High School Our Family Engaged Three Years Next Year Freshman Sophomore Freshman Year Sophomore Year

Book:Attachments

Source: Attachments

“In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.”

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.”

Years Made School Team Basketball High School Organized Only Time Juniors Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Dennis Rodman

“And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.”

Ifs Years Art Said Humor School Funny Three Next Deals Pay Comedy Cutting Dad Majors Decided My Dad Quitting Three Years Art And Science Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.”

Years Two School Four Football Months Hospitals Stomach Playing Football Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Chad Michael Murray

“I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.”

Years Acting University Michigan Sophomore Sophomore Year University Of Michigan

Author:David Alan Grier

“In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.”

Years Real Car My Friends Accidents Real Life Being Real Car Accident Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Beverley Mitchell

“For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.”

Writing Years Persons College Ambition Burning Useless Sole Sophomore Sophomore Year

Book:Selected Letters of William Styron

Source: Selected Letters of William Styron

“I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac.”

Years School Bits High School Moved California Freshman Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Shanley Caswell

“In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had him play one-on-one while the team observed. When he missed an easy shot, he became angry and stomped and whined. The coach walked over to him and said, "You pull a stunt like that again and you'll never play for my team." For the next three years he never lost control again. Years later, as he reflected back on this incident, he realized that the coach had taught him a life-changing principle that day: anger can be controlled.”

“In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.”

Years Hard Play Kids Secret Advice Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Greg Kinnear

“I started doing improv my sophomore year.”

Years Ukulele Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Rachel Dratch

“In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!”

People Years Firsts Made School Space Five Groups Students Development Organization I Realized Thirty Organized Exploration Posters Campus Sophomore Mit Sophomore Year

Author:Peter Diamandis

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