Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The fans living and dying with every play, every shot, that's why you play college basketball.

Derron Smith

I'm going to have to cover receivers. I'm already a run stopper. In college the receivers run 4.4 (40-yard dashes), so I'll have to work on my footwork.

Sophia Amoruso

I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'

Kim Stanley Robinson

On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.

Kiernan Shipka

I'd definitely like to go to college some day.

Kevin Costner

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.

Kathleen Hanna

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

Judd Nelson

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

Those three are committed to LSU, but you know how recruiting goes.

Ashley Thomas

It was just great for all of us to come out here and play together and have fun. Everybody is going their own way to college so it was nice to get together.

It was a fun, fun night. What a great way for a guy to finish his community college career.

Jessica Valenti

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

Teaching second grade well is just as important as teaching college sophomore (year) well. In some ways, it may be more important.

Sometimes I wonder, do they think we don't want go to college because we live in the inner city?

E. O. Wilson

Ron and I have known each other since college. I knew he was a (heck) of a player. You don't win the Heisman just because they want to give it to you. You win the Heisman because of what you do.

Paul Harvey

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Pat Conroy

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Juan Williams

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

Page Hamilton

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

Lev Grossman

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Mitchel Resnick

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Mitch McConnell

More women are graduating from college now than men.

Mark Waters

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

Mariana Klaveno

I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.

Mike Colter

I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.

Noah Gray-Cabey

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

Noam Chomsky

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.