Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Francis Ford Coppola

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

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.

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].

Isaac Watts

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

Because of David and the continued success of the program, the Bulldogs are on the national scene of college football. The fact that he was a Valley high school product, a true home-grown, hometown hero makes this event more special.

(Certification) really helps the students if they continue to go to a post secondary school. We are accredited with the same culinary accreditation that Johnson County Community College has only we have it at the high school level.

By selling now, you can lock in losses and reduce your child's 2001 tax bill. And your college savings will grow faster with the tax treatment in a 529.

By selling now, you can lock in losses and reduce your child's 2001 tax bill, ... And your college savings will grow faster with the tax treatment in a 529.

Homelessness isn't just downtown. They're in Kenwood and up by Gandy and over by Eckerd College living in the woods.

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.

He's a guy who definitely has gotten better since he left college.

Samuel Butler

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.

Geo is finally playing the point guard position the way I have envisioned him doing it. For going to college, he knows he needs to distribute and run the offense smoothly and he did that.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

Albert Haynesworth

But I remember in college when I sprained my MCL a couple of times, but it was never anything serious. It's going to be fine,

Reggie Bush

But I?m very excited to test my abilities at the next level, to see if I could do the same things I did in college and high school and Pop Warner.

Bruce Hall

Before this year I had never won anything in my college career, so to be recognized as the Lehigh Valley player of the year feels pretty good.

Before they enter into teachers' colleges they should screen them and have specific questions on why they want to be a teacher.

Guy Oseary

I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.

Greg Grunberg

I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didnt finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.

Greg Giraldo

Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills.

Greg Gutfeld

I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

Greg Gutfeld

Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

Hillel is important because college is a time in students' lives when they are realizing who they want to be.

High school players think they work hard, but until you go to college, then you really see how hard you really have to work.