300 Quotes on College

• Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

  Author: David Zucker

• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

  Author: Don Young

• I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

  Author: Martin Yan

• Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

  Author: John Wozniak

• I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

  Author: James Worthy

• I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

  Author: Ron Wood

• I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

  Author: Scott Wolf

• At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

  Author: Terri Windling

• As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

  Author: Walter Williams

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

  Author: Treat Williams

• If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

  Author: Ricky Williams

• Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

  Author: Dominique Wilkins

• Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.

  Author: James Welch

• I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Author: Len Wein

• A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• I was never into smart college boy music.

  Author: Gene Ween

• I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.

  Author: Amy Weber

• College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

  Author: John Walker

• I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

  Author: G. Trudeau

• In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  Author: G. Trevelyan

• I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

  Author: Carrot Top

• It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

  Author: George Thorogood

• The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

  Author: John Thorn

• I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

  Author: Mike Thompson

• In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

  Author: Ryan Sypek

• It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

  Author: Barry Switzer

• The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

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

  Author: Lynn Swann

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

  Author: Ruben Studdard

• College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• 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

• I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

  Author: Stephen Stills

• Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

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

  Author: George Stigler

• 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

• I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

  Author: James Stewart

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

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

  Author: Harry Stanton

• When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

  Author: Stephen Sprouse

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

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

  Author: Soundarya

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

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

  Author: James Somerville

• Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

  Author: Dick Smothers

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

  Author: Lillian Smith

• The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

  Author: Dean Smith

• Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

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

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

  Author: Martin Sheen

• I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.

  Author: Ben Shahn

• There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

  Author: Jeanne Shaheen

• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  Author: John Sexton

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

  Author: Amartya Sen

• 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

• Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

  Author: Jon Secada

• I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

  Author: Jon Secada

• My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

  Author: Jon Secada

• There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

  Author: Jill Scott

• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

  Author: Bobby Scott

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

  Author: Bobby Scott

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

  Author: Bobby Scott

• Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

  Author: Patricia Schroeder

• 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

• I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• 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

• I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

  Author: R. Salvatore

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  Author: Carl Sagan

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

  Author: Martin Ryle

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

  Author: Martin Ryle

• You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

  Author: Dora Russell

• A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

  Author: Roy Romer

• The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

  Author: Roy Romer

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

  Author: Al Roker

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

  Author: Elisabeth Rohm

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

  Author: Will Rogers

• Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

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

  Author: Chris Rock

• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  Author: Abraham Robinson

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

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• 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 went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.

  Author: Jake Roberts

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

  Author: Eric Roberts

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

  Author: Sally Ride

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  Author: Sally Ride

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

  Author: Jonathan Richman

• The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

  Author: Ellen Richards

• I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

  Author: Ann Richards

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

  Author: Donna Rice

• I broke with my religion in college.

  Author: Anne Rice

• The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

  Author: Jodi Rell

• Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

  Author: Dennis Prager

• I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

  Author: Colin Powell

• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

  Author: Jon Porter

• 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

• No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

  Author: Rick Pitino

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

  Author: Daniel Pinkwater

• I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

  Author: David Pierce

• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Author: Rick Perry

• Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

  Author: Pauley Perrette

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

  Author: Piper Perabo

• I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

  Author: Mandy Patinkin

• 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 at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

  Author: Sara Paretsky

• I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

  Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

• This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

  Author: Bill Owens

• Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  Author: P. 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.

  Author: Heather O'Rourke

• We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

  Author: Suze Orman

• We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.

  Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

• In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

  Author: Mary Oliver

• 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.

  Author: Larisa Oleynik

• 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

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

  Author: Judd Nelson

• At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.

  Author: Jamie Muir

• Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

  Author: Constance Motley

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

  Author: Constance Motley

• I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

  Author: Edwin Moses

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

  Author: Edwin Moses

• College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!

  Author: Rob Morrow

• The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

  Author: Jeffrey Morgan

• There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.

  Author: Rick Moranis

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

  Author: Shemar Moore

• One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

  Author: Ashley Montagu

• When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

  Author: George Mitchell

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

  Author: Donald Mitchell

• If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

  Author: Beverley Mitchell

• Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

  Author: Beverley Mitchell

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

  Author: Beverley Mitchell

• When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

  Author: Andrea Mitchell

• Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

  Author: Ruth Minner

• When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

  Author: Alice Miller

• Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.

  Author: Al Michaels

• They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

  Author: Debbie Meyer

• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

  Author: James Merrill

• I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

  Author: Freddie Mercury

• So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

  Author: Maria Menounos

• A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Author: Herman Melville

• I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

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

  Author: James Meade

• Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.

  Author: Jim McKay

• 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

• 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

• It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• 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

• Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

  Author: Bruce McCulloch

• 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

• 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

• 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

• And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

  Author: Willie Mays

• The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

  Author: Willie Mays

• And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

  Author: Harry Mathews

• We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

  Author: Ross Martin

• 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 truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

  Author: Andrea Martin

• 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

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

  Author: Dan Marino

• When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

  Author: Marla Maples

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

  Author: Thomas Mann

• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Author: Barry Mann

• 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

• Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

  Author: Camryn Manheim

• By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

  Author: Albert Maltz

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

  Author: Lee Majors

• It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

  Author: Cheryl Lynn

• I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

  Author: Derek Luke

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

  Author: Mike Lookinland

• 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

• I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

  Author: Lindsay Lohan

• Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

  Author: Rebecca Lobo

• 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

• In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

  Author: Ray Liotta

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

  Author: Art Linkletter

• My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

  Author: Maya Lin

• The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

  Author: Ron Lewis

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

  Author: Leonard Levinson

• 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

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

  Author: John Leguizamo

• I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

  Author: Spike Lee

• What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

  Author: William Leahy

• I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

  Author: Christine Lahti

• 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.

  Author: Shia LaBeouf

• I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.

  Author: Mike Krzyzewski

• Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.

  Author: Marta Kristen

• I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

  Author: Henry Kravis

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

  Author: Peter Krause

• College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

  Author: Jerry Kramer

• An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

  Author: Jonathan Kozol

• You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

  Author: C. Koop

• 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

• 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

• I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

  Author: David Knopfler

• 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

• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

  Author: Bobby Knight

• I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

  Author: Stephen Kleene

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

  Author: Chris Kirkpatrick

• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Author: Jack Kingston

• Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

  Author: B. King

• Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

  Author: Ron Kind

• 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

• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  Author: Patrick Kennedy

• I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

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

  Author: Jackie Kennedy

• I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

  Author: Moira Kelly

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

  Author: Moira Kelly

• I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!

  Author: Moira Kelly

• I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

  Author: Ric Keller

• 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

• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

  Author: Helen Keller

• 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.

  Author: Barnaby Keeney

• At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

  Author: Barnaby Keeney

• 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.

  Author: Casey Kasum

• Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

  Author: Roger Kahn

• Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

  Author: Louis Kahn

• 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

• So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

  Author: James Jones

• 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

• My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

  Author: James Jones

• To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

  Author: Holly Johnson

• 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

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

  Author: William James

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

  Author: Kevin James

• For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

  Author: Joshua 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

• 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

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

  Author: Bo Jackson

• 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.

  Author: Michael Ironside

• 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

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

  Author: Robert Hutchins

• I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon.

  Author: Charlie Hunnam

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

  Author: Hubert Humphrey

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

  Author: Karen Hughes

• 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

• Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

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

  Author: Lou Hoover

• 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.

  Author: Tim Holden

• So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

  Author: Dustin Hoffman

• Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• 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

• The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

  Author: Tony Hillerman

• 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

• I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

  Author: Dana Hill

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