College Quotes - page 6

The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job. (Sean Covey)

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

B. B. King

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

Bill Cosby

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

Debbie Macomber

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

David Duchovny

Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

David Eddings

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Dennis Rodman

Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

James Surowiecki

I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.

James Heckman

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Jennifer Weiner

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity. (Jeffrey Eugenides)

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Jeffrey Eugenides

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived-bound, in other words, for life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

Joshua Ferris

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

Judith Krantz

When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.

Duncan Jones

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

Elizabeth Banks

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Kami Garcia

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.

Karen Joy Fowler

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

Alton Brown

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera. (Alton Brown)

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

Amanda Hocking

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Lev Grossman

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

Charles William Eliot

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

Gary Lineker

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