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.
~By John Thorn ~
When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
~By Judd Nelson ~
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
~By Santiago Durango ~
When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.
~By Sheena Easton ~
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 quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
~By Barry Mann ~
After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
~By David Talbot ~
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
~By Roy Barnes ~
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.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
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 ~
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
~By Bruce Conner ~
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.
~By Bobby Scott ~
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.
~By Don Young ~
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 ~
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
~By Dick Smothers ~
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 ~
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.
~By 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.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
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 ~
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
I was never into smart college boy music.
~By Gene Ween ~
I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.
~By Roy Romer ~
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
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.
~By Red Grange ~
I started doing stand-up in college.
~By Carlos Alazraqui ~
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 ~
The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
~By David Axelrod ~
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 ~
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
~By William J. Clinton ~
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.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
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.
~By Ron Wood ~
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.
~By Bobby Scott ~
Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
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 ~
I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.
~By Peter Krause ~
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.
~By Soundarya ~
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
~By Virginia Gildersleeve ~
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.
~By Alice Cooper ~
When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.
~By Marla Maples ~
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.
~By Matthew McGrory ~
I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.
~By Moira Kelly ~
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.
~By Marta Kristen ~
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.
~By Pauley Perrette ~
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.
~By Suze Orman ~
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.
~By Dana Hill ~
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.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
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.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
It was always assumed that I would go to college.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
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?
~By James Earl Jones ~
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
~By Jon Secada ~
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.
~By Roger Clemens ~
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.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
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.
~By G. B. Trudeau ~
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.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
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 ~
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.
~By Colin Powell ~
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 ~
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.
~By George Thorogood ~
But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.
~By Shemar Moore ~
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
~By Harry Mathews ~
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
~By Sally Ride ~
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
~By Daniel Pinkwater ~
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.
~By David Knopfler ~
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
~By Bill Cartwright ~
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
~By Karen Hughes ~
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.
~By Tony Visconti ~
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.
~By Ted Shackelford ~
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.
~By Edward Levi ~
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.
~By Tom Glazer ~
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.
~By David Talbot ~
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 ~
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
~By Stephen Sprouse ~
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
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.
~By William Standish Knowles ~
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.
~By Robert Scheer ~
I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
~By Trishelle Cannatella ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
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 ~
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
~By James A. Garfield ~
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 ~
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
~By Natalie Portman ~
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.
~By Martin Yan ~
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
~By Allan Carr ~
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
~By Art Linkletter ~
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 ~
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.
~By Jim McKay ~
In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.
~By Verne Troyer ~
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