Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gaston Caperton

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Garrett Atkins

My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

Christopher Durang

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

Frances O'Grady

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

Fran Lebowitz

We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

Jermaine O'Neal

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

Jennifer Weiner

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Jeff Ament

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

Jeannette Walls

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

Frank Grillo

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Frank Capra

I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.

George Horace Lorimer

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

George Horace Lorimer

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Christine Lahti

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

Christie Hefner

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

Chris Ofili

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

George W. Bush

So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time.

Frederick Douglass

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

Eve Hewson

My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened.

Francine Prose

I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasnt going to support me.

Jeff Garcia

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

Godfried Danneels

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Gerald Chertavian

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

Hope Solo

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

Iggy Pop

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

Ian Bremmer

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

Howard Zinn

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

He took every math course they had in college.

He's trying to make you into a better man and person. You come to college . . . and you're on your own. You learn from your mistakes.

He struggled, and I think regretted his decision and wished he went to college because he really found the transition to be tough. I think it's an incredibly tough way to make a living. The transition from the juniors to the pros is a big leap. There are a lot of good players out there.

Scott Gordon

He's less tentative. It took him probably the first month to develop the confidence and find a way to be as physical as he was in college and not get caught.