Famous Quotes & Sayings

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

James Caan

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

James A. Garfield

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Jackie Kennedy

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

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.

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.

Jeremy Lin

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

Jenna Fischer

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

Jenna Fischer

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

Jerry Robinson

When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.

Jason Reitman

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

Hill Harper

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

Hillary Clinton

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

Hillary Clinton

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

Hillary Clinton

I'm not going to let the government make a profit out of lending money for people to go to college. So we're going to really change this. I see it as an investment, not an expense, and I'm going to treat it that way.

Hillary Clinton

I want to make college debt-free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.

Hillary Clinton

We have to do more to make it easier for parents to balance work and family. If you left college with a ton of loans, it`s not enough just to make college more affordable. You need help right now with the debt you already have.

Hillary Clinton

Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.

Hillary Clinton

Today's college student is lazy and uninformed

Eva Longoria

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

Esther Rolle

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

Ezra Klein

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

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.

Gillian Jacobs

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.