Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Santorum

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

Rick Riordan

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

Robert Reich

The gap between college graduates going into lucrative positions and those going into more normal positions is exploding. We've not seen a time in living memory when so many young people made so much money, and some peers are wondering what they have in common anymore.

Amartya Sen

The educational excellence of Presidency College was captivating. My interest in economics was amply rewarded by quite outstanding teaching.

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.

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.

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.

Richelle Mead

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, "What's that?" "Homework.

Rube Goldberg

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

Ronnie Dunn

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

Ron Carlson

It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.

Tyler Hoechlin

Anytime anybody goes, "Wow you've been busy." I'm like, "No, not since college. This is a cakewalk in comparison."

Rick Steves

Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

Trishelle Cannatella

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

Patton Oswalt

This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

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.

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.

Phyllis Schlafly

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

Thomas Hood

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Thomas E. Mann

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Walt Whitman

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Roseanne Barr

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

Rooney Mara

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first

Rooney Mara

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.