Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Clint Eastwood

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

E. B. White

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

Dustin Hoffman

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

Donald Trump

I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their - their debt from college at a lower rate. Those are the kinds of things that will really boost the economy.

The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

Angie Stone

The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

Amy Poehler

[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.

Ann Coulter

When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

Ann Coulter

If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.

Ana Gasteyer

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

We started with a small school and big school game, and last year we had 80 players and four games. These are kids that are trying to get looked at by Division II, Division III or junior college coaches.

We want to continue what we did in the run game and get back to the Knox College-style of passing which we didn't get done last year.

We want to be able to make recommendations to the college on where they need to put recycling receptacles around the campus.

The fact that a film has been made about the championship is an example that the NCAA not only shapes college athletics, but also plays an important role in shaping American society.

Alex Tabarrok

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.

Alex Tabarrok

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Alex Trebek

When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

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 Miller

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

Doc Watson

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

Derek Theler

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

Dermot Mulroney

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

Debbie Stabenow

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

Debbie Meyer

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

Dean Norris

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

Amandla Stenberg

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

Amartya Sen

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Chuck Palahniuk

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink