Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

Conan O'Brien

The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.

Dwyane Wade

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

Grant Hackett

We understand the stage we're in and some people just don't understand we're a small country. We don't have the college system that the US has got. They have so many swimmers but I don't think the low will stay for too long.

Brian Acton

For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

Steve Alford

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.

Oscar Hijuelos

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

Anna Chlumsky

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

Amelia Earhart

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

Annie Baker

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Daniel Johnston

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

Daniel Keyes

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

D. H. Lawrence

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

Crystal Reed

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

Conor McPherson

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

Constance Baker Motley

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

Constance Baker Motley

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Constance Baker Motley

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Conrad Aiken

I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.

David Fincher

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

David Foster Wallace

Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

Dylan Lauren

For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

Douglas Brinkley

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Donald Kagan

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

Creed Bratton

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Clark Kerr

The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.

Claire McCaskill

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

Claire McCaskill

Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.