College Quotes

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

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.

It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

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

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

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

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.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.

College kids, don't be taking examples from me.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

I want to play for years.

I went to college for four years.

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

I graduated from college in 1980.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.