Dorms Quotes

• Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

  Lorrie Moore

  Nice, College, Views

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.629, Faber & Faber

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

  Douglas Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

  Robert B. Parker

  Girl, Senior, School

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• As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.

  Vito Fossella

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

  Robert B. Parker

  Girl, Thinking, Limits

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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Real

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• Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

  Louise Slaughter

  College, Pay, Dining

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• You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Guy, Rooms, Firsts

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• No matter what happened to any individual person, life was going on elsewhere. The first time Kennedy kissed me, it stood to reason that at the same time, other people were splitting up. And the night Kennedy broke my heart, somewhere - maybe right there in my dorm, other people were falling in love.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Heart, Night

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.

  Cody Lundin

  College, Survival, Rooms

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• I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

  David Fincher

  College, Life Is Like, Harvard

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I would have people send me shoes and I had 40 pairs and none would fit in the dorm room. People would come by and be like, "Yo, I've been looking for these shoes." I was like, "I'll sell them to you for $300 right now." I'd sell them, save up $4,000 to $5,000, go to the mall and just buy a bunch of new stuff.

  Iman Shumpert

  Shoes, People, Pairs

  Source: wwd.com

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• To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.

  Eugene Mirman

  Night, Apples, Knowing

  "The Erudite Absurdist: Eugene Mirman". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

  Steve Jobs

  Sunday, Night, Meals

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Some fast food places, they have that ketchup pump. It's like a keg. They give you the paper shot glass. I always like to hang around there, try and meet the ladies. "Here, I'll pump for you. You come to this Wendy's often? My roommate and I, we got a pony pump back at my dorm. Here's an extra shot "

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Glasses, Giving

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• I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'

  Carrot Top

  Wall, College, People

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• On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Sports, Sexy

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• You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us.

  Jason Biggs

  College, Pie, People

  "Fictional character: Jim Levenstein". "American Pie", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.

  Tim Wise

  Drinking, College, Cities

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• I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring. I give it some 36 good twists by the time I've got up, brushed my teeth, shaved, eaten breakfast, changed my clothes, left the dorm, and arrived at the university. I tell myself, "OK, let's make this day another good one." I hadn't noticed before, but they tell me I talk to myself a lot these days. Probably mumbling to myself while I wind my spring.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Spring, Wind

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• All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!

  Rachel Caine

  Dumbasses, Splits, Firsts

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• Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay. 'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms: in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm, and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.

  Saul Williams

  Girl, Lonely, Jesus

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• So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.

  Eric Weiner

  Wall, Moving, College

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.151, Random House

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• I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

  Nick Flynn

  Kissing, Reflection, Night

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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