Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Lynch

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

Kevin Nash

I'm one of those people who can't watch themselves do anything. I could never watch myself wrestle. I've probably watched a handful of my matches. I never could watch myself. Even when I played college basketball, I hated film days... 'Oh God, I'm gonna watch myself screw up.' I'm just one of those people who can't watch their work.

Mike Rowe

Not all knowledge comes from college.

Kurt Loder

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

Kristoffer Polaha

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

Harry Shum, Jr.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.

Jayson Blair

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

Carlos Alazraqui

I started doing stand-up in college.

Candace Kita

I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

Camryn Manheim

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

James Hetfield

Rehab is like college for your head.

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.

Keira Knightley

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

Julian Bond

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

Julia Stiles

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Kim Harrison

Can we get back to how we’re going to kill Nick? And what’s this about a dead body? You’d better start talking quick, Ivy, ’cause I’m not going to play hide-and-seek with a dead guy in my trunk. I did that in college, and I’m not going to do it again.” A smile quirked Ivy’s mouth. “Really?” she asked, and I flushed.

He can be phenomenal. He's going to be a very good college goalie. He's going to make us stronger in the cage, that's for sure.

Jim Hamilton

Haywood Community College is located in the most mountainous county east of the Mississippi, with two national forests and two national parks at our doorstep and owns two forests that we use for outdoor classrooms.

He plans to finish his GED, he wants to take some college, get involved with his community and go to church.

He really fought the odds. They took away football, but he still did four years of college and will graduate.

He really didn't have anything down on paper to show to college coaches. Nothing on videotape. All we had were the relays we normally go to.

Jerry Nelson

He quit college, and I thought that was a huge mistake. The odds of making it in professional sports are small, and I thought it was a mistake to give up his college education.

Mark Shapiro

He phoned us and told us that he was unhappy with his role on College GameDay . He felt that he was playing second fiddle.

He only played one year of college football -- 12 plays. Six plays at tight end and six plays at defensive end.

Imelda Marcos

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

I. King Jordan

At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

Gloria Steinem

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

Harry Mathews

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

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.