Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Gillespie

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

Elizabeth Banks

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

Edwin Meese

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

Edwin Moses

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

Edgar Wright

When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

Bobby Flay

I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.

bell hooks

We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

Booker T. Washington

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this...

Billy Corgan

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

Bruce Feiler

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

Bradley Cooper

I loved the college experience of studying.

Bonnie Raitt

The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.

Bob Wise

To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.

Artie Lange

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

Anurag Kashyap

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.

Bruce McCulloch

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

Brody Jenner

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

With the labor market tightening, particularly for people with college degrees, it makes it increasingly difficult for companies to find highly skilled and talented workers.

We fear that the FCC order will make every college and university replace every router and every switch in their systems. The cost of doing that is substantial.

We're just really excited to get that opportunity. To be the first team at College Park to set that tradition and win that title, it's just such an honor. I'm glad I'm a part of it.

We're functioning as a host tribe, which is unusual because we're a college.

John Whisenant

Throughout her four-year college career, Kim has had a great shooting percentage from the floor and the line. We think she can learn our defensive style and be an excellent team player.

We're really going to be young this year. We lost eight seniors, and five of those are playing in college this year. We may take some lumps early, but we're optimistic and we've got a lot of potential.

Scott Smith

With the rising costs of higher education, these types of scholarships are critical for many of our students to pursue a college degree.

David Duke

There are different Klans just like there are different fraternities in college.

Ben Stiller

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

Barney Frank

For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

Ato Essandoh

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

Arne Duncan

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

Arne Duncan

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

We always encourage our students to get as much research time as they can. That's very important to further their career. It will give them more of a rich college experience.

Derek Bok

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.