Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Durang

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

Gertrude Stein

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Harry Dean Stanton

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

Greta Gerwig

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

Gordon Gee

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

Gordon Gee

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

Gordon Gee

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Herman Melville

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Jeff Garcia

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

Godfried Danneels

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Gerald Chertavian

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

Hope Solo

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

Iggy Pop

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

Ian Bremmer

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

Howard Zinn

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

Gillian Jacobs

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

Harold Prince

I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

Jennie Finch

College was the greatest four years of my life.

Jeanne Shaheen

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

Gloria Estefan

[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

Jessica Valenti

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

Harry Shum, Jr.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.

He can be phenomenal. He's going to be a very good college goalie. He's going to make us stronger in the cage, that's for sure.

Jim Hamilton

Haywood Community College is located in the most mountainous county east of the Mississippi, with two national forests and two national parks at our doorstep and owns two forests that we use for outdoor classrooms.

He plans to finish his GED, he wants to take some college, get involved with his community and go to church.

He really fought the odds. They took away football, but he still did four years of college and will graduate.

He really didn't have anything down on paper to show to college coaches. Nothing on videotape. All we had were the relays we normally go to.

Jerry Nelson

He quit college, and I thought that was a huge mistake. The odds of making it in professional sports are small, and I thought it was a mistake to give up his college education.

Mark Shapiro

He phoned us and told us that he was unhappy with his role on College GameDay . He felt that he was playing second fiddle.

He only played one year of college football -- 12 plays. Six plays at tight end and six plays at defensive end.

Imelda Marcos

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

I. King Jordan

At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.