Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Trudeau

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Frank Bruni

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

Lyndon B. Johnson

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Louise Slaughter

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

Louis Begley

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

Lord Chesterfield

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

Magic Johnson

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

Gautam Adani

I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.

Gaby Hoffmann

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

Maggie Siff

I was an English major in college!

Maggie Smith

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

Mackenzie Astin

I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

Joe Lhota

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

The lessons students need to learn are very similar to the issues faced by adults. The difference is college students are experiencing them for the first time.

The level of hockey that is going to be played this weekend will be tremendous. It's a great regional hockey tournament for college hockey fans.

John Fisher

The job market for college graduates has been difficult. When that happens, the number of applicants to all graduate schools will go up. It's merely reflecting the job market situation. But there is not a need for more lawyers in West Virginia. Therefore, there is not an educational role for (Marshall) to play.

James Taranto

Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

James Taranto

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

James Surowiecki

When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

James Patterson

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

James Maslow

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

Ellen Ochoa

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

Erwin Chemerinsky

The Constitution says that it is the electoral college that determines who is the president. It leaves no doubt.

The Constitution allows College Republicans and other student groups to hold expressive events, even ones that may be deemed offensive by some.

Brian Ross

The day has long since passed that I could pass as a college student.

David Naughton

And having performed in high school productions and college productions I was primarily familiar with live performances on stage.

Holly Black

Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.

Heather O'Rourke

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

Hayden Fry

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

Hilary Duff

I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.

Hilaire Belloc

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