Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constance Baker Motley

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Constance Baker Motley

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Conrad Aiken

I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.

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.

Dylan Lauren

For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

Douglas Brinkley

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Donald Kagan

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

Creed Bratton

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Clark Kerr

The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.

Claire McCaskill

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

Claire McCaskill

Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

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.

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.

David Fincher

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

David Foster Wallace

Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

Curtis Jackson

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

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.

Debbie Stabenow

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

Debbie Meyer

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

Dean Norris

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

Amandla Stenberg

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

Amartya Sen

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Anna Quindlen

I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.

Alexis Bledel

I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday

Amy Schumer

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

Amy Schumer

I always did plays, I got the comedic roles in college ... or, uh, the ones that would get naked.