Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lalah Hathaway

In college, I decided to listen to instrumentalists, because I knew it would help me shape what my personal style was, ... I love Donald Fagan. Steely Dan is a part of the fabric of my youth. I grew up with songs like 'FM' and 'Peg.' All those songs are gonna last forever.

In college football, when someone leaves, they get replaced. We've got a good quarterback in Kirsch. He's not a rookie, he's a good player. He's going to come in, produce and win games.

Larry Coker

In college football, to be where we want to be you can't lose a game. Even sometimes when you don't lose a game, if you don't start at the right place you still don't get there. Starting high has been given more significance now than it ever has.

David Bowens

In college, everything was pretty much structured, ... Now you get money for playing, and once you leave the building, you're off on your own. Now you've got to really manage your time.

In college basketball, free throws make a lot of difference.

Phyllis Schlafly

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

Jonah Goldberg

Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?

Jon Stewart

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

Jon Stewart

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency.

Katherine Anne Porter

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

The evidence shows that for every two percent increase in the number of college students enrolled, there is a corresponding one percent decrease in full-time faculty. This decline in quality is unacceptable, and unless the deterioration stops now, it will only get worse.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

Susan Cain

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Sue Bird

Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

Steve Jobs

I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

Steve Jobs

I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

Steve Jobs

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

Steve Coogan

I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.

Stephen Graham

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

The lessons students need to learn are very similar to the issues faced by adults. The difference is college students are experiencing them for the first time.

The level of hockey that is going to be played this weekend will be tremendous. It's a great regional hockey tournament for college hockey fans.

The last year or so, we knew she was going to get a big scholarship. Word got out to colleges that they needed to look at her. (Auburn) was there in 10 minutes and offered her everything.

Phil Mickelson

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

Peter Lynch

So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

Questlove

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

Prince Philip

This could only happen in a technical college.

Terrence J

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

Temple Grandin

Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

Ted Haggard

A fantasy of mine is to have an orgy with about six young college guys ranging from 18 to 22 in age.

The company's college rep program has been going on since 1969, and it's extremely well-established. Many people have moved up to successful jobs after working as reps.

Red Auerbach

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.