Famous Quotes & Sayings

The last year or so, we knew she was going to get a big scholarship. Word got out to colleges that they needed to look at her. (Auburn) was there in 10 minutes and offered her everything.

John Fisher

The job market for college graduates has been difficult. When that happens, the number of applicants to all graduate schools will go up. It's merely reflecting the job market situation. But there is not a need for more lawyers in West Virginia. Therefore, there is not an educational role for (Marshall) to play.

James Taranto

Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

James Taranto

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

James Surowiecki

When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

James Patterson

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

James Maslow

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

John E. Walker

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

John Carmack

I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

John Belushi

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

Joan Rivers

You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

Jimmy Smits

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Jimmy Smits

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Garry Trudeau

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Frank Bruni

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

Erwin Chemerinsky

The Constitution says that it is the electoral college that determines who is the president. It leaves no doubt.

The Constitution allows College Republicans and other student groups to hold expressive events, even ones that may be deemed offensive by some.

Brian Ross

The day has long since passed that I could pass as a college student.

Jimmy Smith

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

David Naughton

And having performed in high school productions and college productions I was primarily familiar with live performances on stage.

Edward Carpenter

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Holly Black

Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.

Jose Garces

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

Kerry Washington

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

Napoleon Hill

It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Louise Slaughter

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

Louis Begley

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

Lord Chesterfield

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

Magic Johnson

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

Gautam Adani

I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.

Gaby Hoffmann

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.