Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Ann Wright

Texas is known as prime territory for pursuing college-going students, ... and that is especially true for minorities because of our demographic growth.

John Schultz

Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Katzenberg family, we can return to the forefront of colleges whose equipment and facilities are on the industry's cutting edge. The facilities upgrade will have an impact for many years to come.

So she was the one who filled out those college applications and he just double-checked her.

Tech colleges have a source of revenue that no other public entity in the state does - a tax that they can levy without any accountability to the electorate.

Chan Gailey

I've heard it's a great college environment. It's a loud stadium. The fans are into it. It's a tough place to play. That's what I've heard.

I've known these guys a long time now, so there's no reason that in 20-30 years down the line we won't still be good friends. We'll come back to watch other Iona teams play, things like that. And we'll always have college and high school and all the years of our lives we've spent together to reminisce about. Yeah, I see us always being friends.

I've had a couple schools talk to me, but I've not decided on a specific college yet. I definitely want to keep playing.

I've got a college education and I've seen some of this stuff and I don't get it. I can imagine an elderly woman trying to figure it out. Companies will cover some medicines and not others - what a zoo - they should all cover all the medicines.

I've found that a small town with a college is the ideal place to retire,

I'm looking to have a Division I-caliber team with high school recruits and junior college transfers.

I'm playing, ... I just got a little banged up, but you can't play college football without overcoming a few injuries.

I'm just going to go back to college and I'm going to get a new a career.

I'm just really excited to get out on the field and start playing. Playing in my first game at the college level - it's what I've dreamed of ever since I was a kid.