Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Vaughn

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

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.

Vince Young

I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.

Wendy Williams

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Sally Ride

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

Sally Ride

So I decided on science when I was in college.

Salman Rushdie

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Ryan Sypek

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

Wesley Snipes

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

Vinny Guadagnino

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

William Congreve

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Tracee Ellis Ross

The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.

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.

Wilt Chamberlain

When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.

Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

W. E. B. Du Bois

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

Zachary Quinto

It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.

Zachary Knighton

In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

William Allen White

The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.

Sam Altman

The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.

Frank Thompson

Rockefeller College is one of the premier places in the country to study politics, governance, policy, and public administration,

I had 31/2 minutes left in college football. I wasn't going to spend it on the sideline.

Jimmy Conrad

I kind of just take it one step at a time. When I got into college and once I got to see that I could play with the guys at UCLA, I started to get better and more confident with what I could do and see what it took to be at that level.

David Bowens

In college, everything was pretty much structured, ... Now you get money for playing, and once you leave the building, you're off on your own. Now you've got to really manage your time.