Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellie Kemper

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

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.

Kate Mara

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

Josh Radnor

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

Josh Radnor

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Joshua Chamberlain

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Joshua Ferris

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

John D. Rockefeller

I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Louise Slaughter

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

Louis Begley

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

Lord Chesterfield

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

Magic Johnson

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

Gautam Adani

I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.

Gaby Hoffmann

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

Julianna Baggott

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Joshua Jackson

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

Ossie Davis

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Julie Taymor

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

Paul D. Boyer

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

Maggie Siff

I was an English major in college!

Maggie Smith

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

Mackenzie Astin

I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

Hamish Linklater

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C.E.O.'s or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer.

Lusia Strus

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

You know, once you are done with college, you don't have a free week every semester to just go out and help people. Doing this now is a great opportunity.

Matt Holliday

I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.

Meg Wolitzer

This post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it...

Meg Cabot

However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies.

Robert Hass

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

Rick Santorum

I smoked pot and that was something that I did when I was in college It was something that I'm not proud of, but I did.