Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Vaughn

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

Rob Corddry

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

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.

Robert B. Parker

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Rich Sommer

In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.

Red Auerbach

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

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.

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.

Robin Thicke

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

Satchel Paige

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.

Sargent Shriver

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Sargent Shriver

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

Sarah Vowell

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

Santiago Durango

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Vince Young

I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.

William Raspberry

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

Walter Isaacson

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

Win Butler

When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

Woody Harrelson

I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.

Woodrow Wilson

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

Woodrow Wilson

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own....

Wilt Chamberlain

When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.

Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

W. E. B. Du Bois

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

Zachary Quinto

It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.

Zachary Knighton

In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

Yolanda Adams

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college

William Hazlitt

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

Wendell Phillips

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.