Famous Quotes & Sayings

That piece of plastic has interrupted the best-laid college plans for many a student,

That's his background. He was expected to go to college regardless of whether or not he played football.

Michael Smith

Ain't too many 14-year-olds that come and tell you they want to play big-time college football. I never have to tell him how hard he's got to work.

Ric Edelman

Even though they may work in college, they weren't making near the money they're making now. They've never seen this much money in their lives.

Even though in our league and in college there's no fighting, when he's a professional, that'll definitely be part his role. He's just playing the game hard. He'll do whatever it takes for his team to win and be successful. I think that's a good reputation to have.

Bernie has been a longstanding supporter of the College and our students, and we are extremely grateful for this extraordinary gift.

Every player in that locker room wants to go on to play Division I college hockey, and they know this is a route to get to it.

Every game is like his first college game. When you have someone who loves football like that it makes everything more fun, more exciting. He's just a good guy all around and he comes from a good family.

For a long time, we were taught if you go to college and get a job you'll make it in life. It's difficult to make it even with a college education.

It's one of the first times that I've seen his eyes kind of light up. This is the mecca of college basketball.

Polly Adler

It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

It's not ending. We're taking it to college now. That game was not our last together.

It's not easy to get back into the style of college fencing. You fight in more shorter bouts which are more mentally draining.

David Spade

It's the old college days kind of thing.

It's the respect, it's the rivalry, it's the intensity ? it's everything that's good about a college rivalry.

Ben Bishop

It's the only time you got college hockey on TV. I remember watching Maine on it, and now I'm playing here. It's pretty crazy.

It's the only game in town in terms of classifying colleges and universities, just because everybody uses it.

John Beilein

It's the great equalizer. The college game has never been hotter than it is right now, and the three-point shot has been a big part of that.

Chauncey Billups

It's a lot of fun to play in this building. It's been a long time since we've had that college-game feeling. A standing-room crowd. The fans didn't sit down until they scored the first basket. You don't see that in the pro game.

It's a lot different than high school and college, that's for sure. Not only is the talent the next step up, but (the referees) let a lot more go.

It's always difficult finding new people, so we train them from people that have no idea how to turn wrenches. By the time men and women get out of this program, they have a good understanding of what it takes to be a technician, and they're getting some college courses.

It's always been the college students. They are the presence within the movement. . . . We're the next step. We're where it's headed.

Greta Gerwig

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

Gordon Gee

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

Gordon Gee

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

Gordon Gee

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Herman Melville

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Jeff Garcia

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

Jeff Mangum

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

Jim Gaffigan

I never went to church when I was in college, either.

Jesse Jackson

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.