Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Park

I love the tactile nature ... The fact that you're working with real materials. That's what turned me on at college. Making all the props and creating a little world that you can see for real.

I never expected to go to college. Nobody in my high school went to college. We had half-pound rations of meat and of cooking oil. Matches were rationed. Toilet paper was rationed.

The first thing about him is that he is really a tough player. He'll need to learn the college game, but as a linebacker he fills exactly the way you would want him to.

The college would like these programs to continue, but they should be able to support themselves.

The college game has become run and gun, push forward and head it in. And she's got all the tools for that.

The first part of our season was very demanding with lots of tough matches and travel too. Experiencing that can only help our team improve and learn more about what it takes to compete at this level of college tennis. I'm looking forward to the next phase of our season leading up to Spring Break. We should be fresh and ready to go.

Mike Lookinland

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

Jose Garces

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

Kerry Washington

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

The evidence shows that for every two percent increase in the number of college students enrolled, there is a corresponding one percent decrease in full-time faculty. This decline in quality is unacceptable, and unless the deterioration stops now, it will only get worse.

Alan Greenspan

The hey day when a high school or college education would serve a graduate for a lifetime is gone, ... Today's recipients of diplomas expect to have many jobs and to use a wide range of skills over their working lives.

The hiring outlook continues to bode well for job seekers and for this springs' new crop of college graduates.

The individual with a college savings plan is someone who might otherwise be investing in taxable funds for their child's college education and they'd like to be able to put that money in a tax-advantaged savings account.

Jeff Overton

A guy with Michael's talent, it's only a matter of time. We're going to show them what good college golfers are like this week.

Henry Giroux

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

Brian Greene

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

That's on everything from music to college tuition.

I want to raise this money for pre-paid college tuition for his kids and to help her pay the bills.

Dikembe Mutombo

It was mandatory in college that we had to wear a suit. I think it's kind of funny ? now we get the opportunity to make millions and millions of dollars and we're required to wear suits. Well, we were required to wear them in college when we made nothing.

I've had a couple schools talk to me, but I've not decided on a specific college yet. I definitely want to keep playing.

Noam Chomsky

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

Paul Harvey

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Keira Knightley

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

Julian Bond

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

Julia Stiles

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Kim Harrison

Can we get back to how we’re going to kill Nick? And what’s this about a dead body? You’d better start talking quick, Ivy, ’cause I’m not going to play hide-and-seek with a dead guy in my trunk. I did that in college, and I’m not going to do it again.” A smile quirked Ivy’s mouth. “Really?” she asked, and I flushed.

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?

Nick McDonell

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.