Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer.

Abbie Hoffman

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

Abbie Hoffman

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

Adam Smith

The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.

Adam Kluger

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

Adam Ant

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

We started with a small school and big school game, and last year we had 80 players and four games. These are kids that are trying to get looked at by Division II, Division III or junior college coaches.

Tyler Hamilton

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

Bret Ellis

We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.

We want to make it a big deal these next three days. This is the only place in Florida you can see men's college volleyball.

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.

We find deals for the people who need it the most: the college students. We might find deals on videos, music or other products a college student might need.

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.

Anna Chlumsky

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

Amelia Earhart

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

Annie Baker

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Daniel Johnston

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

Daniel Keyes

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

D. H. Lawrence

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

Crystal Reed

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

Conor McPherson

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

Constance Baker Motley

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

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.

David Fincher

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