Final Exams Quotes:

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

- George Carlin

topic: Funny, Witty, Thinking, Cramming, Final Exams

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Years, Different, Drs, Final Exams

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

- Bobby Fischer

topic: Games, Chess Game, Finals, Final Exams

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

- Madeleine L'Engle

source: Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.130, Open Road Media

topic: Believe, Writing, Character, Chaucer, Final Exams

A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.

- Vicki Davis

topic: Morning, Taken, Acceptance, One Minute, Erasers

So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love.

- Marci Shimoff

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Capacity To Love, Finals, Alive, Final Exams

Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. But it all changes after that. You get a great car, a great job. You got a wife, kids, you got your health. But then your company is sold out from under you, your stocks tank, your wife's sleeping with the gardener and your teenage daughter is pregnant. And you notice that you have a prostate so hard, you can actually take a hammer to it. But hey, not one zit.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Titus / Errrr". www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: Daughter, Jobs, Teenage, Infantile, Acne

If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.

- Warren Buffett

source: "Buffet Says 'No' to Tech Stocks". www.wired.com. May 05, 1998.

topic: Class, Finals, Answers, Final Exams

Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Blessed, Technology, Thinking, Indescribable, Final Exams

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

- Joel Garreau

topic: Real, May, Extinction, Final Exams

You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

- Wilbur Smith

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Feelings, Final Exams

One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.

- Mike Rosen

topic: Sex, Couple, Home, Leading Causes, Incompatibility

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

- Kenny Cunningham

topic: Football, Believe, Careers, Final Exams, Business Related

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn't, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a filmmaker.'

- Tim Burton

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

topic: Teacher, Reading, Book, Houdini, Final Exams