Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fisher

The job market for college graduates has been difficult. When that happens, the number of applicants to all graduate schools will go up. It's merely reflecting the job market situation. But there is not a need for more lawyers in West Virginia. Therefore, there is not an educational role for (Marshall) to play.

James Taranto

Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

James Taranto

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

James Surowiecki

When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

James Patterson

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

James Maslow

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

Joe Flanigan

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.

Eric Stoltz

The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

Eric Liu

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

Jodie Foster

When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.

Jim Parsons

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

Jim Rohn

Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

Emily Procter

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

Emily Oster

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

Ellie Kemper

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

Elisabeth Rohm

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

Jimmy Fallon

Democrats have been doing everything they can to get young people and college students to vote in the midterms. Though if you want students to participate in something, maybe you shouldn't call them midterms.

John Corbett

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

Karen Hughes

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

Julianna Baggott

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

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.

Orson Welles

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Ellen Ochoa

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

Erwin Chemerinsky

The Constitution says that it is the electoral college that determines who is the president. It leaves no doubt.

The Constitution allows College Republicans and other student groups to hold expressive events, even ones that may be deemed offensive by some.

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.