Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Cabot

However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies.

Patricia Cornwell

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

Patricia Cornwell

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

Paddy Chayefsky

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

Paul Weller

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

Phil Hartman

I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

Phil Keoghan

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

Martin Ryle

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

Martin Ryle

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

Lee Child

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

Lisa Kudrow

In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.

Lisa McMann

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

John Travolta

I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.

John Ridley

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

John Podhoretz

You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.

John Piper

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

Martin O'Malley

To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage them to go to college, too, and to study physics and to study economics, but for the rest of us, let's get to work.

Mark Teixeira

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.

Mark Teixeira

College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.

Mark Teixeira

My goal was to go to college and come out the best player.

Nick Kroll

You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.

Missi Pyle

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.

Peter Dinklage

Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

Marissa Mayer

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

Nick Tosches

I don't have a college degree.

Norah Jones

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

Nigel Rees

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

Montel Williams

I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.

Miles Teller

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

John Pople

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

Mary Johnson

We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.