Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristoffer Polaha

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.

Kim Stanley Robinson

On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.

Kiernan Shipka

I'd definitely like to go to college some day.

Kevin Costner

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.

Kathleen Hanna

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

Judd Nelson

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

Kristin Cavallari

I have no urge to go back to college.

Mojo Nixon

I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.

Mike Birbiglia

I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.

J. K. Rowling

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

H. L. Mencken

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

H. L. Mencken

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.

H. L. Mencken

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

Greg Lukianoff

Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.

Greg Kinnear

I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.

Jennie Finch

College was the greatest four years of my life.

Jeanne Shaheen

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

Gloria Estefan

[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

Jessica Valenti

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

College towns aren't the most prosperous because their knowledge isn't deployed in the most economically productive occupations.

Colleges will welcome anything that improves the output from schools, particularly at 16 years of age, because we feel that we are being pushed by the government to pick up the pieces of what it sees as a failing and flawed system.

College students typically don't think anything is going to happen to them. That is why it is important to expect the unexpected.

College students have money to spend, and stores are going all out. They have wandered into a gold mine,

College students have money to spend, and stores are going all out - they have wandered into a gold mine.

College students have grown up with video games where they've learned that the more you play something the better you get at it. But while skill plays a role in the outcome, poker is still a game of chance.

College students don't get a lot of great nutrition, mostly because they are in a hurry, so we give them counsel on healthy things to eat.

Colleges are going to see Plainfield's an accredited school and say, 'Kids going there are learning what they need to know,'

Russell Simmons

College kids go off to school and they get twisted with credit.

Derrick Williams

College is new stuff for me. So the game I'm looking forward to most right now is the first game -- South Florida.

College is a be-all, end-all ? you make more money if you get a college degree. There's not a level playing field. In Paterson, we didn't have textbooks, but then I moved up here and there's five computers in every classroom.

College golf isn't going to do anything for her.

Dan Jenkins

College football is the sport where 80, 000 people show up to watch a Poll Bowl, half of them wearing one color, half of them wearing another color. This is important because 80, 000 people wearing any color never filled a stadium to watch a math quiz.

College can be seen as a tool for any direction you want to go.