College Quotes · Page 49

I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress.

— Sharmila Tagore

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

— Thomas Ehrlich

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

— Lady Gregory

When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

— Manish Dayal

When I grew up, I was just another kid who wasn't going to college.

— Scottie Pippen

I actually tried quite a few racquets in college before I turned pro.

— Kevin Anderson

“The best thing about college was that you could wear anything anywhere.”

— Caroline B. Cooney

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

— Frederick Lenz

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning…

— Douglass North

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them.…

— Elliott Abrams

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet…

— Lara Spencer

“Go and learn about blockchain instead of going to college. You'll gain a whole lot of valuable information that would change your…

— Olawale daniel

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the…

— Gordon Gee

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When…

— Dwyane Wade

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page…

— Claire Danes

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you…

— Nicholas Sparks

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so…

— Nipsey Hussle

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then…

— Nawal El Saadawi

John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate…

— Martin Burns

From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough…

— Ben Fountain

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go…

— Ben Fountain

In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that…

— Jill Lepore

I started on Vine when I first started. My parents were pretty confused about it. They definitely weren't like, 'Don't do it,'…

— David Dobrik

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

— Darrell Royal

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

— Chris Martin

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

— Ian Bremmer

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

— Temple Grandin

I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

— Adam Brody

I was an ordinary college kid. I drank beer, ate pizza, lifted weights and occasionally went to class.

— Paul Casey

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music…

— James Vincent McMorrow

“Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

— David Talbot

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Plenty of girls saw college as some sort of exploratory period.”

— Tammara Webber

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way…

— James Patterson

We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.

— Mary Johnson

My standing gig in college was playing the El Chico patio on Murfreesboro Road. I got $100, tips, and free quesadillas.

— Chris Young

You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us.

— Jason Biggs

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

— Bruce Lee