Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Spiro T. Agnew

The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Ruchi Sanghvi

When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world,

Ross Martin

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

Rosie O'Donnell

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

Rush Limbaugh

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

Rush Limbaugh

These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

Rush Limbaugh

Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.

Rush Limbaugh

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

Rush Limbaugh

We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me rephrase that: It is the ill-educated and the uneducated that we are letting in. The VCs, college graduates, PhDs, you name it, from all over the world, they are limited. The number of people of that caliber - severely limited and tightly controlled.

Thomas Merton

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Steve Perry

If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.

Steve Nash

I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.

Sophie Kinsella

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

Vin Diesel

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

Victor Cruz

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

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.

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.

Richard Widmark

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

Sam Wyly

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

Sam Walton

I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college. I did it when I carried my papers. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them, I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. Before long, I probably knew more students than anybody in the university, and they recognized me and considered me their friend.

Sam Abell

For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.