College Quotes · Page 66

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Jason Biggs

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought…

— Tom Osborne

I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in…

— Tom Green

How can I go from this poor college kid one day and the next day get a check for $7 million. How's…

— Ryan Leaf

My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.

— Ken Xie

Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground…

— George Leef

So, college was kind of the only option that I looked at, and I was fortunate to have great coaches when I…

— Jennifer Brady

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most…

— Barack Obama

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already…

— Joan Baez

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals,…

— Lewis Thomas

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable…

— Donal Logue

I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send…

— Joel Osteen

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I…

— Carol Burnett

For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job…

— Suze Orman

I go to see my kids in school plays, ... I watched Lorna in a concert at the Westminster College of Music…

— Sean Bean

I didn't fit into the Christian college my parents sent me to. I felt tarnished by tragedy, between my brother's death and…

— Julia Scheeres

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

— Nick Denton

In college, when you lose one game as a top team, it's like the end of the world.

— Jahlil Okafor

By the time I went to college, I had totally embraced my Indianness, but I still didn't tell anyone I could sing.

— Vidya Vox

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

— Laura Matilda Towne

As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

— Fadi Ghandour

Right from growing up I always wanted to be a teacher, but my dad discouraged me.

— Sara Davies

Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.

— Mawra Hocane

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

— Fidel Castro

We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

— Clint Dempsey

I hate when professors keep you the entire time on the first day of class. Gimme the syllabus and get me out…

— Anonymous

I don't think our pro offense would work at the college level.

— Chip Kell

Dear person who finishes test in 10 minutes, I HOPE YOU FAIL! Sincerely, still on first question.

— Anonymous

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

— Frank Grillo

College students shouldn't be forced to choose between text books and their next meal.

— Alex Padilla

I mean, I don't think a lot of people know this, but I played corner in college.

— Chris Hogan

I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to…

— Frances McDormand