Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Kinsella

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

Vin Diesel

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

Victor Cruz

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

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.

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.