Sophomore Year Quotes

• I started doing improv my sophomore year.

  Rachel Dratch

  Years, Ukulele, Sophomore

  68 Copy quote

• And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

  Harry Mathews

  Years, Navy, Sophomore

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Beverley Mitchell

  Real, Years, Car

  61 Copy quote

• 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.

  James Earl Jones

  Senior, Years, Class

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  David Alan Grier

  Years, Acting, Michigan

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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!

  Peter Diamandis

  School, Years, Organization

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Bernie Mac

  Mother, Girlfriend, Brother

  Bernie Mac (2001). “I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is”, MTV Books

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Art, Dad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.'

  Katy Mixon

  Jobs, College, Utah

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, School, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  John Brandon

  Writing, Years, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Bo Jackson

  Growing Up, Play, Years

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Scotty McCreery

  Sunday, College, Years

  "Scotty McCreery: Celebrity On Campus" by Emily Laurence, Slide 2, www.seventeen.com. August 14, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Lewis Schiff

  Summer, Jobs, Wall

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Bo Jackson

  Senior, Running, Smart

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chad Lindberg

  Dad, School, Years

  "Chad Lindberg Exclusive Interview THE CAPE and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Joan Chen

  Summer, Couple, School

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Zach Condon

  Cutting, Class, Years

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Regina King

  School, College, Thinking

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Chad Michael Murray

  Football, School, Years

  "Getting to Know: Chad Michael Murray". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 5, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Shanley Caswell

  School, Years, California

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Rainbow Rowell

  School, Kids, College

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.124, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Player, College

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Kids, College, Years

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Basketball, Team, Life Changing

  6 Copy quote