College Quotes
If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "
What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.
I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.
I believe in affordable college, but I don't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the costs.
I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.
What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.
The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.
I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.
I've been really impressed at some of the investments that I've seen in community college and technical schools that are training young people for these jobs in 3D printing and the like.
I will do everything that I can to make sure that you have good jobs, with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations from preschool through college.
Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.
When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.
Of course I want to test myself. I enjoy fighting. But I also have six kids, and I want them to go to college. I hope that I can reach a point where I get the best of both worlds.
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.
I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.
People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.
Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.
If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.
So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?
I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.
From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.