Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rush Limbaugh

We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me rephrase that: It is the ill-educated and the uneducated that we are letting in. The VCs, college graduates, PhDs, you name it, from all over the world, they are limited. The number of people of that caliber - severely limited and tightly controlled.

Thomas Merton

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Steve Perry

If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.

Steve Nash

I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

Susan Cain

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Sue Bird

Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

Steve Jobs

I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

Steve Jobs

I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

Steve Jobs

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

Steve Coogan

I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.

Stephen Graham

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Spiro T. Agnew

The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Steven Spielberg

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Tom Glazer

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

Tom Hanks

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

Tom Hanks

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.

Tod Machover

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.

Tina Fey

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!

Tina Fey

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

Sam Donaldson

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

S. Robson Walton

I was small but slow as a college tackle.

Russell Westbrook

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

Sophie Kinsella

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

Vin Diesel

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

Victor Cruz

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

Susanna Thompson

I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.

Susanna Hoffs

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

Susan Sullivan

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

Taslima Nasrin

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

Sophia Bush

I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.