Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.

Before they enter into teachers' colleges they should screen them and have specific questions on why they want to be a teacher.

Matt Clement

He's just a few months out of college. That's unbelievable. It took me five years to get to where he is now. You obviously don't get here that quick without talent.

Ira Glass

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Mindy has been an outstanding representative of sportsmanship and the higher value of college athletics.

I think the sky is the limit with him. All you had to do is see him. Potentially, he could be a very, very good college football player.

Sure. You would have liked (more production). Rickey has practiced well and is getting in shape. That comes from playing and not being in the system. It is difficult for junior college players to come in and make a huge impact early on.

That's what I said. Just like a sophomore in college.

That's what I'd do in college. That was my college interception dance.

We have one of the premier vaulting sites in the area. This is a college pit. It's a really good place to vault. It's very safe.

I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill.

I think if she stays with it in college, she is only going to get better. I don't think we have seen her true potential yet. This is a player that has come on as of late.

Jennifer McMahon

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

I studied naturopathic medicine in college and there was nothing in my studies that referred to radon as a therapy. It's been interesting to see ionizing radiation used as a treatment.

Mack Brown

I think he's one of the great players ever to play college football. If he comes back next year, which we think he will, he'll have a great shot to win the Heisman.

Mack Brown

I think he will be, ... one of the great quarterbacks to ever play college football before he leaves Texas.

Sylvester Croom

I think for college football, it is probably as good as you could come up with, ... It still gives the officials another tool to make good decisions with and it doesn't put a lot of pressure on our coaches. And it's probably the most economical way as well.

E. B. White

It dampers it quite a bit, ... You win 12 games and that's extremely hard to do in college football and you end up with nothing to show for it.

I think I was real raw at the time. I had played college, but in college I had three or four position coaches. I don't know that I necessarily had specific training at the linebacker position that would help me.

I thought it was a great day for our freshmen to get used to college tennis and dual matches.

I thought I had my first year of college paid for, so I was pretty excited.

Mark Ryan

Just about every graduate coming out of college has Linux experience at some level,

Junior golf in South Carolina, going back to Charles, Lucas and those guys, is a definite reason why college players have won lately,

Junior college was a good, rude awakening. He matured. He had one more chance, and he made a name for himself.

You kind of know your last game in college. In the NFL, you're trying to keep fighting to get to that last game. Sometimes you don't make it to the last game. You're not guaranteed to have that last game with everybody watching. You've just got to play every game as if it's your last.

Jim Tressel

You know, I grew up in the early '70s in college and I had plenty of teammates who had a little hair. I don't have a problem with that, as long as they look -- I don't know what the right word is -- as long as they look sharp.

We feel great about it. They don't get hurt as much, and anything they can do to play college ball.

We put a personal touch on it, to make their parents feel comfortable with the handoff, and know they'll be supported in everything they do. It's a great college environment. The football's all it's cranked up to be, and the education and the degree are very valuable because of the success they'll have on the field and in the classroom.

Jayson Blair

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

Carlos Alazraqui

I started doing stand-up in college.

Candace Kita

I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

Camryn Manheim

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.