College Quotes · Page 55

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

“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

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

— Chris Martin

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

— Darrell Royal

“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 college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt…

— Melina Matsoukas

I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I…

— Momina Mustehsan

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to…

— Erma Bombeck

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of…

— Thomas A. Edison

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he…

— B. B. King

I've been through college, and I lived in a trailer park for five years. I've lived in the trenches of Maryland, and…

— Cordae

How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college…

— Tammy Duckworth

I was in junior college a few years ago, so to be here sitting in this spot talking to these NFL executives,…

— Josh Allen

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is…

— Phyllis McGinley

I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me,…

— Alex Haley

I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track…

— Dot Jones

Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year…

— Lewis Black

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a…

— Uzo Aduba

To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really…

— Elaine Equi

My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline.…

— W. Bruce Cameron

What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women…

— John F. Kennedy

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 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

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

— James Patterson

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

— Jahlil Okafor

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

— Nick Denton

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

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

The cost of a college degree has skyrocketed out of control.

— Wayne Messam

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

— Jason Isbell

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college. What am I still doing here?!

— Anonymous