Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Carruth

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

They are very talented, but we're going to give our guys a few days off to get some rest and just be college kids,

They walk into the college arena, and we handed them the keys to the house and the car.

Fay Vincent

They were young, just out of college in those days,

Christopher Durang

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

Gertrude Stein

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Harry Dean Stanton

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

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.

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.

Gillian Jacobs

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

Harold Prince

I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

Iyanla Vanzant

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Jeff Garcia

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

Godfried Danneels

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Gerald Chertavian

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

Hope Solo

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

Iggy Pop

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

Ian Bremmer

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

Howard Zinn

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.