Quotes on College

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that.

Author: Hasil Adkins

I started doing stand-up in college.

Author: Carlos Alazraqui

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

Author: Carlos Alazraqui

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Author: Fred Allen

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

Author: Marcus Allen

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

Author: Carmelo Anthony

I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Author: Michele Bachmann

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

Author: Spencer Bachus

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

Author: Syd Barrett

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

Author: Annette Bening

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

Author: Sandra Bernhard

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

Author: Jason Biggs

I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.

Author: Kenneth Blackwell

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

Author: Julian Bond

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

Author: Paul Boyer

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

Author: Trishelle Cannatella

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

Author: Duane Carey

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

Author: Mary Carpenter

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.

Author: Steve Case

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

Author: Michael Castle

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Author: Michael Castle

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

Author: Brandi Chastain

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Author: John Ciardi

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Author: Ty Cobb

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

Author: Rob Corddry

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Author: Ossie Davis

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

Author: Alan Dershowitz

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

Author: Marjory Douglas

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

Author: Katherine Dunn

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

Author: Christopher Durang

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

Author: John Dykstra

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

Author: Sheena Easton

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.

Author: David Eddings

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

Author: Joely Fisher

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

Author: Dan Fogelberg

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

Author: Scott Foley

For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!

Author: Henry Fonda

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Author: Luke Ford

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

Author: Luke Ford

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

Author: Tom Ford

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Author: Glenn Frey

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Author: Robert Frost

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

Author: Hayden Fry

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

Author: George Galloway

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

Author: James Garfield

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

Author: Helen Garner

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

Author: Ana Gasteyer

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

Author: Ed Gillespie

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.

Author: Tom Glazer

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

Author: Rube Goldberg

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Author: Sue Grafton

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

Author: Sue Grafton

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

Author: Red Grange

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

Author: Jane Haddam

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

Author: Dante Hall

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

Author: Dante Hall

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

Author: Randy Harrison

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

Author: Christie Hefner

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Author: Christie Hefner

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

Author: Jim Henson

No, I was going to college and got discovered.

Author: Jay Hernandez

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Author: Antony Hewish

I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.

Author: Steven Hill

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Author: Ruben Hinojosa

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

Author: Lou Hoover

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?

Author: Mike Huckabee

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

Author: Karen Hughes

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

Author: Hubert Humphrey

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Author: Robert Hutchins

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

Author: Robert Hutchins

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.

Author: Bo Jackson

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.

Author: Bo Jackson

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

Author: Holly Johnson

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

Author: James Jones

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

Author: Norah Jones

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

Author: Ric Keller

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

Author: Moira Kelly

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

Author: Jackie Kennedy

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.

Author: Craig Kilborn

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

Author: Chris Kirkpatrick

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.

Author: Keira Knightley

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

Author: Mark Knopfler

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

Author: William Knowles

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

Author: Peter Krause

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

Author: John Leguizamo

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Author: Edward Levi

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

Author: Leonard Levinson

One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.

Author: Art Linkletter

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

Author: Ray Liotta

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

Author: Bob Livingston

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

Author: Jeremy London

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

Author: Lee Majors

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

Author: Camryn Manheim

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Author: Thomas Mann

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

Author: Dan Marino

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

Author: Steve Mariucci

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

Author: Marc Maron

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

Author: Ross Martin

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.

Author: Pete McCloskey

Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.

Author: Kent McCord

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

Author: Kent McCord

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

Author: Bobby McFerrin

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.

Author: Matthew McGrory

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Author: Al McGuire

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

Author: James Meade

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Author: Herman Melville

Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

Author: Beverley Mitchell

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

Author: Donald Mitchell

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

Author: Shemar Moore

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

Author: Edwin Moses

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

Author: Constance Motley

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

Author: Simon Newcomb

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

Author: P. O'Rourke

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

Author: P. O'Rourke

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Author: Robert Parker

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

Author: Piper Perabo

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Author: Daniel Pinkwater

I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

Author: Danny Pintauro

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

Author: John Pople

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

Author: Donna Rice

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

Author: Jonathan Richman

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

Author: Sally Ride

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

Author: Eric Roberts

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

Author: Oscar Robertson

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

Author: Oscar Robertson

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.

Author: Chris Rock

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Author: Will Rogers

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

Author: Elisabeth Rohm

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

Author: Al Roker

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

Author: Martin Ryle

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

Author: Martin Ryle

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.

Author: Ryne Sandberg

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

Author: Jessica Savitch

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

Author: Phyllis Schlafly

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Author: Bobby Scott

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Author: Bobby Scott

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

Author: David Selby

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Author: Amartya Sen

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

Author: Sargent Shriver

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.

Author: Jimmy Smits

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

Author: Mira Sorvino

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

Author: Margaret Spellings

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

Author: Harry Stanton

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

Author: Kristen Stewart

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

Author: George Stigler

The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

Author: Angie Stone

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

Author: Ruben Studdard

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Author: Lynn Swann