Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Teixeira

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.

Mark Teixeira

College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.

Mark Teixeira

My goal was to go to college and come out the best player.

Nick Kroll

You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.

Missi Pyle

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.

Paul Harvey

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Juan Williams

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

Noah Gray-Cabey

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

Noam Chomsky

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

Joely Fisher

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

Joe McNally

A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.

Patton Oswalt

It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

P. J. O'Rourke

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

Mark Twain

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

Nikki Giovanni

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

Nicole Polizzi

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

Nicole Richie

I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

Nick McDonell

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

Matt Czuchry

Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that.

Mark Twain

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

Mitchel Resnick

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Mitch McConnell

More women are graduating from college now than men.

Mack Brown

A year and a half ago, there were people who questioned whether Vince Young could be a major college quarterback.

Luke Wilson

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire

Louis Farrakhan

Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?

Lizz Winstead

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Liya Kebede

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

Michael Jordan

I've had tendinitis since college.

Michael N. Castle

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Michael N. Castle

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

Mark Waters

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.