Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joely Fisher

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

Joe McNally

A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.

Kristin Armstrong

What's really appealing about women's cycling in America? If you took a poll in the women's peloton, I would bet you that 90% of the women have college degrees, and a lot of them have Masters. The women's peloton is very well educated.

Kristen Stewart

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

Koren Zailckas

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

Margaret Atwood

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Kenny G

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Lake Bell

I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.

Patti LaBelle

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.

Mack Brown

A year and a half ago, there were people who questioned whether Vince Young could be a major college quarterback.

Luke Wilson

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire

Lucretia Mott

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

Louis Farrakhan

Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?

Lizz Winstead

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Liya Kebede

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

Michael Jordan

I've had tendinitis since college.

Mark Twain

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Mark Twain

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

Nikki Giovanni

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

Nicole Polizzi

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

Nicole Richie

I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

Nick McDonell

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

Matt Czuchry

Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that.

Mark Twain

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

Patton Oswalt

It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

P. J. O'Rourke

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

Michael N. Castle

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Michael N. Castle

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

Christopher Durang

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

Gertrude Stein

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.