Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

Montel Williams

I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.

Miles Teller

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

Alan Greenspan

The hey day when a high school or college education would serve a graduate for a lifetime is gone, ... Today's recipients of diplomas expect to have many jobs and to use a wide range of skills over their working lives.

The hiring outlook continues to bode well for job seekers and for this springs' new crop of college graduates.

The individual with a college savings plan is someone who might otherwise be investing in taxable funds for their child's college education and they'd like to be able to put that money in a tax-advantaged savings account.

Jeff Overton

A guy with Michael's talent, it's only a matter of time. We're going to show them what good college golfers are like this week.

Tom O'Brien

A great weekend for college football. It was special.

You've got four very competitive regions. It's a great sign for where college hockey is at. All 16 teams are competitive.

You've got college kids walking around here drunk. It's a prime target area.

Leroy Burrell

You've got a lot of guys who can run 10.2, who can run 20.5 (in the 200), and we take that for granted. What we don't have are the guys in college who can run sub-10 (seconds) or the numbers that we may have had in the 1980s or early 1990s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Dinklage

Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

Marissa Mayer

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

Megan Fox

Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Maya MacGuineas

When you finish college, you don't suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere-in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans.

Maya Lin

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

John Pople

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

Norm Coleman

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

Nolan Bushnell

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

Noel Gallagher

None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter