Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Shelby Lynne

I didn't go to college.

Shaquille O'Neal

The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked....Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

Laura Schlessinger

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Lady Gregory

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

Susanna Thompson

I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.

Susanna Hoffs

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

Susan Sullivan

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

Taslima Nasrin

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

Sophia Bush

I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

Marc Andreessen

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Thomas A. Edison

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Natalie Coughlin

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

Tatyana Ali

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

Talib Kweli

If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

Steven Spielberg

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Tom Glazer

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

Tom Hanks

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

Tom Hanks

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.

Tod Machover

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.

Tina Fey

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!

Tina Fey

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

Sam Donaldson

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

Sylvia Plath

But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?

Ronald Burkle

I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.

Tom Ford

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

Tom Barrett

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Steve Wozniak

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

Steve Sabol

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

Steve Albini

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college

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.