Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I came out of my shell in college.

I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.

I think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow.

Going to London at 18 to study drama and theatre made me grow up really fast.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.

College was the greatest four years of my life.

I got quite the college experience.

I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was where I became a man.

Why not travel, why not see the rest of the world, why not experience life? It's beautiful! Phenomenal!

I attended College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif., for a year, but college wasn't for me. I was curious about life beyond Los Angeles.

I got a whole different mindset from living in Senegal and being there. I learned a lot of things, met a lot of people, and got to really find out what I wanted to work for and who I want to be and who I want to help and who I'm doing it for.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

It is important to experience everything. If you haven't travelled in life, if you haven't had friends, if you haven't been a Chhichhora, then you haven't done anything in life.

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

I needed to go to college. I needed to mature.

I love the process - collaborating with the photographers, traveling, and seeing different cultures. My mother always said I would regret it if I didn't do it. And I think she was right.

When I came to BYU, I had no idea what I wanted to study. It really was a decision based on football. I wanted to come here and play football. The decision has turned out to be so much more than football.

I've come a long way from the area where I grew up in Sheffield. It's been a journey, but I've fully enjoyed it.

College is a time where a lot of people try to find themselves.