College famous quotes
05-20-2025
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
-- Aaron Levie -
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
-- Aaron Staton -
After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
-- Aaron Tveit -
The fact I want...no, I need for us to be exclusive until we part ways when we head off to college
-- Abbi Glines -
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
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.
-- Abraham Robinson -
People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
-- Adam Carolla -
Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.
-- Adam Carolla -
That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
-- Adam DeVine -
I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
-- Adam Kluger -
When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
-- Adam Sandler -
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
-- Adam Smith -
I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.
-- Adepero Oduye -
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
-- Agnes de Mille -
I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
-- Aida Turturro -
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.
-- Ajay Naidu -
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
-- Al Franken -
Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.
-- Al Franken -
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.
-- Al McGuire -
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
-- Al McGuire -
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.
-- Al Roker -
It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
-- Alan Charles Kors -
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
-- Alan King -
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
-- Alan Shepard -
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
-- Albert Einstein -
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.
-- Albert Maltz -
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
-- Albert Mohler -
Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied farm, a wrecked forest, or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. Whatever ails the land, the government will fix it.
-- Aldo Leopold -
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.
-- Alex Haley -
Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.
-- Alex Trebek -
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
-- Alex Trebek -
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
-- Alexander Pope -
I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.
-- Alexandra Chando -
I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday
-- Alexis Bledel -
I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.
-- Alexis Denisof -
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
-- Alexis Herman -
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
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.
-- Alice Miller -
I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.
-- Alison Brie -
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
-- Alistair Cooke -
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
-- Allan Bloom -
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.
-- Allen Carr -
When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.
-- Allison Williams -
I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.
-- Allison Williams -
I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.
-- Allison Williams -
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
-- Alton Brown -
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera
-- Alton Brown -
Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.
-- Amanda Plummer -
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
-- Amartya Sen -
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
-- Amber Heard -
Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.
-- Amelia Earhart -
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
-- Amy Adams -
Masters of Sex is the degree I got from Boston College.
-- Amy Poehler -
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
-- Amy Schumer -
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.
-- Amy Weber -
I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
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.
-- Andrea Mitchell -
So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.
-- Andrew Delbanco -
My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.
-- Andrew Luck -
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.
-- Andrew Solomon -
I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.
-- Andrew W.K. -
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.
-- Andrew Wiles -
When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
-- Andrew Young -
I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
-- Andy Cohen -
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.
-- Andy Rooney -
You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.
-- Andy Samberg -
My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me to buy a pair as well. I didn't like black, so I got the sand color, and I've been wearing them since college.
-- Andy Spade -
College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.
-- Andy Stern -
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
-- Andy Summers -
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
-- Angela Bassett -
My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life.
-- Angela Kinsey -
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.
-- Angie Stone -
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
-- Anita Diament -
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.
-- Ann Richards -
I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.
-- Anna Camp -
I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!
-- Anna Chlumsky -
When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.
-- Anna Kendrick -
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
-- Anne Bancroft -
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I was in college, I'd heard that one in four women would be raped, and I thought, God, that means I must know someone who was raped. Sure enough, I found out a week later that a friend had been. A billion is too big because one is too big.
-- Anne Hathaway -
College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
-- Anne Lamott -
What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.
-- Anne Rice -
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
-- Annie Baker
