Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mariana Klaveno

I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.

Mike Colter

I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.

Kristin Armstrong

What's really appealing about women's cycling in America? If you took a poll in the women's peloton, I would bet you that 90% of the women have college degrees, and a lot of them have Masters. The women's peloton is very well educated.

Kristen Stewart

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

Koren Zailckas

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

Kenny G

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Mark Twain

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Page Hamilton

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

Lev Grossman

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Lake Bell

I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.

Patti LaBelle

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.

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.

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.

There's a reason why he's going to Utah State. A big college isn't going to give a kid a full ride, just because he's nice. Jardine played well. He kind of took over tonight.

Jim Tressel

As we move forward to play Texas, we don't need to say much more than we're playing Texas, one of the great programs in the history of college football. They've got things rolling there right now extremely well.

ABA accreditation is another sign of the maturation of our region in general and of ULV College of Law in particular.

Absolutely, it was a good decision. I had a great year, my favorite year in college. I got to come back and restore my legacy at Oklahoma, got to right the wrong that happened, and at the end of the day I probably made myself a lot of money.

E. O. Wilson

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

The more players you can get with a college background, the better. They're used to structure, and they know it works.

A college education isn't so ridiculously out of whack. It ain't cheap, but it's not as expensive as people think either.

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.

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.