It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end. ~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. ~By Herman Melville ~
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. ~By Al Michaels ~
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. ~By Claire Danes ~
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. ~By Ross Martin ~
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? ~By Mike Huckabee ~
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching. ~By Helen Garner ~
I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. ~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
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. ~By Bobby Scott ~
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun. ~By Eric Roberts ~
I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'. ~By Chris Kirkpatrick ~
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. ~By Sue Grafton ~
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ~By Fred Allen ~
In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled. ~By Verne Troyer ~
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. ~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
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. ~By Steve Mariucci ~
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. ~By Camryn Manheim ~
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. ~By Lindsay Lohan ~
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. ~By Julia Stiles ~
It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college? ~By Marcus Allen ~
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. ~By John Pople ~
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. ~By Larisa Oleynik ~
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. ~By Ron Lewis ~
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. ~By James Merrill ~
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play. ~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine. ~By Judith Krantz ~
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~By Mark Twain ~
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. ~By Woodrow Wilson ~
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. ~By B. B. King ~
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. ~By John Gardner ~
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ~By David McCullough ~
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. ~By Derek Luke ~
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. ~By Jamie Muir ~
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
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. ~By Michael N. Castle ~
Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. ~By Rod Taylor ~
When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side. ~By Elizabeth Banks ~
I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there. ~By Edwin Moses ~
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ~By Gavin Bryars ~
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge. ~By Bernie Worrell ~
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. ~By Tim Holden ~
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. ~By Parker Stevenson ~
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. ~By Ben Shahn ~
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. ~By Sargent Shriver ~
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. ~By Cheryl Lynn ~
I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life. ~By Phil Mickelson ~
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. ~By Ric Keller ~
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. ~By Andrew Wiles ~
IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life. ~By Edward Carpenter ~
When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play. ~By Judd Nelson ~
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. ~By James Earl Jones ~
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. ~By Jon Secada ~
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. ~By Robert Sternberg ~
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. ~By Willie Mays ~
I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college. ~By Moira Kelly ~
I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world. ~By Donna Rice ~
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ~By Arthur Golden ~
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. ~By Ajay Naidu ~
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill. ~By Tom T. Hall ~
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. ~By Ken Thompson ~
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. ~By David Eddings ~
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. ~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college. ~By Carrot Top ~
College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus. ~By Jerry Kramer ~
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. ~By Tony Hillerman ~
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. ~By Camryn Manheim ~
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it. ~By Barry Switzer ~
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. ~By Amy Weber ~
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. ~By Ryan Sypek ~
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. ~By Jim Henson ~
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return. ~By Gaston Caperton ~
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ~By John Ciardi ~
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. ~By Bob Dylan ~
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs. ~By Erika Slezak ~
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. ~By Twyla Tharp ~
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. ~By Richard Lugar ~
Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording. ~By Charlie Daniels ~
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. ~By Woodrow Wilson ~
At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people. ~By Joe Flanigan ~
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything. ~By Art Linkletter ~
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. ~By Spike Lee ~
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. ~By Bobby McFerrin ~
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. ~By Andrea Martin ~
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. ~By Jon Secada ~
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco. ~By Douglass North ~
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. ~By Woodrow Wilson ~
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. ~By Jon Secada ~
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress. ~By Beth Henley ~
My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college. ~By David Talbot ~
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. ~By Thomas Merton ~
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ~By Walt Whitman ~
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. ~By Matthew Sweet ~
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. ~By Michael N. Castle ~
I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level. ~By Matt Groening ~
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it. ~By Sherrod Brown ~
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. ~By Robert Frost ~
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that. ~By Christopher Durang ~
It was always assumed that I would go to college. ~By Paul D. Boyer ~
When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball. ~By Barry Bonds ~
Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college. ~By Treat Williams ~
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