College Quotes

I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.

~ Gbenga Akinnagbe

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to describe it... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven't had the same passion for sports.

~ Brian Dennehy

Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

~ Elizabeth Thornton

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

~ Roger Kahn

My becoming a film actor was more a twist of tale than a chosen course because I dared not to think I could ever become an actor. I couldn't even walk up on a stage and say 'Thank you' when we were to receive trophies at our sports meets at college.

~ Dilip Kumar

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

~ Douglas Coupland

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

~ Sam Hunt

After I went to college, I realized that no matter how much I loved sports, I was ready to have fun, and that was right when I started to sing.

~ Cole Swindell

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

~ George R. R. Martin

I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.

~ Allison Williams

I had a friend at college who took being poor very personally. He started showering in the sports centre next door and said he wasn't going to pay for the hot water in our flat any more because he didn't use it. He made me and my other friend pay the bills on our own.

~ Robert Webb

My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.

~ Corey Taylor

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

~ Charlie Pierce

I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.

~ Cary Fukunaga

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

~ Masi Oka

I don't have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It's guaranteed to cure a cold.

~ John Legend

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

~ Imelda May

Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.

~ Marie Rutkoski

You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

~ Gil Scott-Heron

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

~ Bobby Scott

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

~ Gerald Chertavian

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

~ Fred Allen

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

~ Garry Trudeau

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

~ Ruby Wax

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

~ Patricia Riggen

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

~ Paul Ryan

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

~ Anne Lamott

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

~ Lena Dunham

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

~ Tim O'brien

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

~ Sara Paretsky

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

~ Mark Kennedy

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

~ Karen Finerman

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

~ Martha Reeves

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

~ Ruben Hinojosa

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

~ Julie Taymor

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

~ Marc Garneau

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

~ Robert M. Hutchins

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

~ James Stewart

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

~ James Green Somerville

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

~ Alexis Herman