Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

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.

Tim Holden

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

Tim Heidecker

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

Sean William Scott

I went to college for about a year in California.

Saul Kripke

I wish I could have skipped college.

Les Baxter

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

Lee Daniels

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

Laurie Colwin

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

Larisa Oleynik

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

Larisa Oleynik

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

L. Ron Hubbard

Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Shelby Lynne

I didn't go to college.

Shaquille O'Neal

The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked....Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

Laura Schlessinger

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Lady Gregory

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

Peter Thiel

Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

Peter Thiel

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

Peter Krause

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

Peter Coyote

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

Rachel Dratch

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

Piper Perabo

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.