Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Brubeck

And it still produces, too. The Stockton Symphony is top-notch in my book, and there's some great students coming to the institute. Joe Gilman (the American River College music professor who also teaches at the institute) is one of the most talented pianists I've ever heard. That praise doesn't do him justice,

All we're looking for is a fair warning before College employees come to student's rooms. We want some sort of middle group with administration. Sometimes the rules are followed. This is to make sure that they are followed all of the time.

All things in the report are not unique to Keene State College. They reflect what is happening everywhere in society and the world.

John Brady

These guys grew up together. I think that's unique in college basketball. Maybe not as unique as it would be for New York or Chicago, where you have millions of people in a small area, but we don't have millions of people in our state.

These private nursing colleges are charging fees from R3900 to R8000.

These private nursing colleges are charging fees from R3 900 to R8 000.

Mack Brown

This is a great game for college football. It's a game that every college football fan will watch, and because of that, I think everyone has really embraced it. This isn't a week for a weak guy. You'd better walk with a swagger.

This is a guy who enters college with a lot of tools just looking to polish it up. He needs the little nuances that come from playing in Lute Olson's program.

Emo Philips

In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.

Ashley Brown

The Homework Help software is designed for students in grades 4 through 12 with some tutoring in college introduction courses available.

Louis Menand

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

Louis Menand

Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C.E.O.'s or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer.

Lusia Strus

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

You know, once you are done with college, you don't have a free week every semester to just go out and help people. Doing this now is a great opportunity.

The major difference is that in the fall we had 22 percent of college students saying we should withdraw all troops and now we only have 11 percent who say that. However, the percentage of college students who think we should withdraw some troops is much higher.

The main thing is to encourage them in a little financial way to go to college.

Jerome Lawrence

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say "I don't know the answer!

The luncheon gives kids a tremendous opportunity to see and experience what the Padres do for them. Talking with the youngsters, a lot of them know what they want to do when they grow up. And they all realize the value of a college education and what it can do for them.

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.

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.

Michele Bachmann

Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college,

Ray Bradbury

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

Ray Bradbury

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Ray Bradbury

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Ralph Abernathy

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

Rajon Rondo

It’s kind of like, I would say, maybe college recruiting. I’m pretty sure a lot more goes into it in the NBA. A lot more money is spent. I’ve heard stories, guys getting called right at midnight. It’s something that I haven’t experienced. I may want to go through it. I haven’t thought about it at all.