College Quotes · Page 64

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

— Noam Chomsky

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

College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

— Andy Stern

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

— David Means

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

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

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

— George Leef

I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and…

— Lewis Black

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

My grandson is mad at me. He's mad at me because I squandered his college fund on Spanx. It's a lot, but…

— Joan Rivers

I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California,…

— Jack Ramsay

Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family…

— Charlie Pierce

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country… I decided to take a calligraphy class to…

— Steve Jobs

When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television…

— Charles M. Blow

The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs…

— Denzel Washington

I was thrown into a position where I had to learn a new language, become professional and not be just that child…

— Lindsey Horan

I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of…

— Mark Cuban

I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally…

— Patricia Churchland

The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In…

— Bonnie Raitt

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

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

“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 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

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