Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Henry Rollins

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Helen Gurley Brown

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

Henry Giroux

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

Patricia Cornwell

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

Patricia Cornwell

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

Paddy Chayefsky

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

Paul Weller

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

Phil Hartman

I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

Phil Keoghan

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

Martin Ryle

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

Martin Ryle

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

Lee Child

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

Lisa Kudrow

In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.

Lisa McMann

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

John Travolta

I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.

John Ridley

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

James Rothman

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

Kyle Kinane

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

George Galloway

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

Jon Hurwitz

We were with Hayden Schlossberg enormous fans of that first American Pie. We were in college when it came out, and we watched it over and over and over again.

Jon Krakauer

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

Jon Krakauer

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

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.

Nick Tosches

I don't have a college degree.

Norah Jones

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

Nigel Rees

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.