Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rodriguez

So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.

Frank Bruni

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

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.

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.

Mike Lookinland

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

Jose Garces

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

Jonathan Swift

A college joke to cure the dumps.

Joe Biden

I was first in my family to go to college.

Joe Biden

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

Lolo Jones

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Lloyd Alexander

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

Lou Henry Hoover

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

John F. Kennedy

What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, who can make judgments about life as it is, and as it must be, and encourage the people to make those decisions which can bring not only prosperity and security, but happiness to the people of the United Sates and those who depend upon it.

Jonathan Horton

I changed my diet drastically. In college, I was a typical college guy who ate junk food all the time. When you're in college, your metabolism is through the roof. I felt like my body started to change when I was 22 or 23, so I started meeting with a nutritionist and it completely changed everything.

Jonathan Carroll

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.

Jonathan Ames

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

Jonah Hill

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

Brian Ross

The day has long since passed that I could pass as a college student.

Jimmy Smith

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

David Naughton

And having performed in high school productions and college productions I was primarily familiar with live performances on stage.

Edward Carpenter

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Holly Black

Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.

John Henrik Clarke

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

John E. Walker

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

John Carmack

I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

John Belushi

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

Joan Rivers

You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

Jimmy Smits

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Jimmy Smits

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Garry Trudeau

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.