Frankie Cosmos Quotes

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

I was doing B.Tech in Noida, but I dropped out in my second year.

At some point, I talked about how I had never graduated college. I dropped out my sophomore year to start MercyMe 21 years ago. Part of the reason was I felt like I was treading water.

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

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.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.

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 had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to see what else is out there for me. But after about six or seven months away from the game, I just decided that the whole college life wasn't for me and that's why I decided to come back.

I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before really pursuing music.

The best decision I ever made was to drop out of school.

I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.

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 wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.

Thank God I applied to Howard. It's where I belonged.

When you go to college the first couple years, and you kind of get beat around, you kind of think about, 'Maybe if I went to pro ball, it would be a little bit better.' Now that I look back on it, I made the right choice.

I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.

I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.

College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.