Diana Gabaldon Quotes

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.

I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

I'm sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.