Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Rivers

You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

Jimmy Smits

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Jimmy Smits

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

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!

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

Remote and ineffectual don.

Helen Vendler

For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.

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!

Katherine Anne Porter

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

Mike Colter

I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.

Mark Twain

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Mark Twain

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

Nikki Giovanni

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

Nicole Polizzi

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

Nicole Richie

I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

Molly Shannon

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

Molly Ringwald

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.

Mira Sorvino

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

Miranda Cosgrove

A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.

Miranda Cosgrove

I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.

Mike Huckabee

Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

Mike Huckabee

When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room.

Mike Huckabee

I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.

Paula White

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.