Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Linus Pauling

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Lindsay Lohan

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

Lindsay Lohan

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

Kerry Washington

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

Napoleon Hill

It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

Mary Oliver

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Marty Nemko

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

Tim Holden

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

Tim Heidecker

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

Steven Spielberg

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Tom Glazer

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

Tom Hanks

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

Tom Hanks

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.

Tod Machover

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.

Tina Fey

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!

Tina Fey

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

Sam Donaldson

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

S. Robson Walton

I was small but slow as a college tackle.

Russell Westbrook

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Shelby Lynne

I didn't go to college.

Shaquille O'Neal

The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked....Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

Laura Schlessinger

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Lady Gregory

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

Sean William Scott

I went to college for about a year in California.