Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

E. B. White

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

Dustin Hoffman

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

Andre Dubus

I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

Ann Patchett

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

Amanda Plummer

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

Andrew Wiles

Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

Chuck Palahniuk

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

Anna Kendrick

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

Anne Rice

I broke with my religion in college.

Andrew Solomon

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

Anne Lamott

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

Anne Lamott

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.

Ana Gasteyer

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

The fact that a film has been made about the championship is an example that the NCAA not only shapes college athletics, but also plays an important role in shaping American society.

Alex Tabarrok

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.

Alex Tabarrok

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Alex Trebek

When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

Donald Trump

I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their - their debt from college at a lower rate. Those are the kinds of things that will really boost the economy.

Donald Miller

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

Doc Watson

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

Derek Theler

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

Dermot Mulroney

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

Daryl Hall

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

Dakota Fanning

I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

Dakota Fanning

I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.

Cole Porter

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

Clarence Thomas

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

Dan Rather

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

Dan Rather

College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

Dan Quayle

I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college.

Cynthia Voigt

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

Danielle Panabaker

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.