College Quotes · Page 71

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

— Anonymous

I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college.…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.

— Kimberly Bryant

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the…

— Bill Owens

We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they…

— Gertrude Stein

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

— Sally Field

If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access…

— Megan McArdle

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British…

— Dick Gregory

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs…

— Tom Glazer

“Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

I didn't own a record player when I was younger. I just played every day after school and then started gigging around…

— Michael McDonald

People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but…

— Christian Coleman

I'm a huge feminist, I majored in sociology at college, and I care about what I put into the world.

— Beanie Feldstein

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in…

— Ray Bradbury

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically…

— Sharon Creech

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a…

— Red Auerbach

That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school.…

— Kordell Stewart

The empty room of someone who has gone to college, or is on holiday, is not much different from someone who has…

— Michael Rosen

I'm a self-made man since I left college at the age of 18.

— Raj Kundra

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know…

— Susan Orlean

At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take…

— Anzia Yezierska

Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest…

— Kim Edwards

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The…

— H. L. Mencken

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

— Roger Ebert

A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because…

— Bill Maher

I'm passionate about coaching and being able to mentor young men in a lot of different ways. I think it's good to…

— Avery Johnson

I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a…

— Annette Bening

I was very active in college. I wanted to play athletics, and then I looked at wrestling as being a viable option…

— Kane

I've been in the league a lot of years, and I'll know a majority of the coaches, not only in the college…

— John Dorsey

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing.…

— Toni Morrison

Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need…

— Amy Klobuchar

You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer,…

— Jonathan Tisch

My college coach was a baseball guy. So why is no one questioning why a baseball player is coaching or analyzing softball…

— Jessica Mendoza

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like…

— William Faulkner

I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as…

— Imtiaz Ali

It ended up taking eight years to finish college because I got deployed and went overseas.

— Jon Huertas

Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college…

— Elizabeth Scott

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and…

— Vladimir Nabokov