Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophia Amoruso

I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'

I'm not going after any college guys, I'm not trying to make any trades for players because I think we have the right chemistry. In the end, (it's just a matter of) do we get it done or not?

I'm definitely a streaky player. In high school, it all evened out. In college, if you miss two or three, it might be the only ones you get and people think you're in a slump.

I'm really excited. That college is the most family-oriented place. They're just wonderful.

Cat Osterman

I'm really excited for this opportunity to try broadcasting. I'm a little nervous, but it's something I'm interested in down the line after my college days, so I am glad to get a shot at it now. This should be an exciting weekend to showcase pro softball and show the nation how exciting our sport is.

Nick Park

I love the tactile nature ... The fact that you're working with real materials. That's what turned me on at college. Making all the props and creating a little world that you can see for real.

I never expected to go to college. Nobody in my high school went to college. We had half-pound rations of meat and of cooking oil. Matches were rationed. Toilet paper was rationed.

The first thing about him is that he is really a tough player. He'll need to learn the college game, but as a linebacker he fills exactly the way you would want him to.

The college would like these programs to continue, but they should be able to support themselves.

The college game has become run and gun, push forward and head it in. And she's got all the tools for that.

The first part of our season was very demanding with lots of tough matches and travel too. Experiencing that can only help our team improve and learn more about what it takes to compete at this level of college tennis. I'm looking forward to the next phase of our season leading up to Spring Break. We should be fresh and ready to go.

Mike Lookinland

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

Jose Garces

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

Kerry Washington

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

The evidence shows that for every two percent increase in the number of college students enrolled, there is a corresponding one percent decrease in full-time faculty. This decline in quality is unacceptable, and unless the deterioration stops now, it will only get worse.

Alan Greenspan

The hey day when a high school or college education would serve a graduate for a lifetime is gone, ... Today's recipients of diplomas expect to have many jobs and to use a wide range of skills over their working lives.

The hiring outlook continues to bode well for job seekers and for this springs' new crop of college graduates.

The individual with a college savings plan is someone who might otherwise be investing in taxable funds for their child's college education and they'd like to be able to put that money in a tax-advantaged savings account.

Jeff Overton

A guy with Michael's talent, it's only a matter of time. We're going to show them what good college golfers are like this week.

Henry Giroux

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

James Rothman

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

Kyle Kinane

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

George Galloway

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

Jon Hurwitz

We were with Hayden Schlossberg enormous fans of that first American Pie. We were in college when it came out, and we watched it over and over and over again.

Jon Krakauer

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

Jon Krakauer

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

Louis Menand

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

Louis Menand

Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C.E.O.'s or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer.

Lusia Strus

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

You know, once you are done with college, you don't have a free week every semester to just go out and help people. Doing this now is a great opportunity.

The major difference is that in the fall we had 22 percent of college students saying we should withdraw all troops and now we only have 11 percent who say that. However, the percentage of college students who think we should withdraw some troops is much higher.

The main thing is to encourage them in a little financial way to go to college.