College Quotes - Page 33

• I went to college for about a year in California.

  Sean William Scott

  Years, California

  4 Copy quote

• There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

  Walter Payton

  Football, Determination, Hard Work

  21 Copy quote

• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Jobs, Children, Dad

  7 Copy quote

• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, Years, Design

  4 Copy quote

• If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

  Margaret Halsey

  Education, Mean, Two

  4 Copy quote

• I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape.

  John Grisham

  Fun, Regret, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Years, Play, Trying

  "Dermot Mulroney Interview INHALE; Plus Updates on EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES and LOVE, WEDDING, MARRIAGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

  Claire Danes

  Responsibility, Thinking, Years

  7 Copy quote

• If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

  Louis Begley

  Gone, Literature, Harvard

  4 Copy quote

• Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Kids, Impact

  16 Copy quote

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  Danica McKellar

  Passion, Media, Risk

  4 Copy quote

• Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

  Tom Barrett

  Priorities, Needs, Wisconsin

  "Tom Barrett vs. Scott Walker: A Q&A session". "The Associated Press" Interview, www.winonadailynews.com. May 27, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  Patrick Duffy

  Dad, Years, Acting

  4 Copy quote

• I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

  Erin Andrews

  Football, Blast, College Football

  7 Copy quote

• I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

  Jonathan Ames

  People, Generations, Ifs

  9 Copy quote

• I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

  Jon Bernthal

  Baseball, Russia, Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I played sports in high school and in college.

  Jon Bernthal

  Sports, School, High School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

  Judy Blume

  Baby, Home, Writing

  "Judy Blume's Love, Writing About Kids Ages 9-12". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 25, 2008.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  Taylor Branch

  Athlete, Thinking, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

  Nicholson Baker

  Friends, Real, Taken

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

  Annie Baker

  Writing, Play, Downtown

  4 Copy quote

• I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

  Eric Bana

  Kids, Thinking, Stories

  4 Copy quote

• Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

  Jason Biggs

  Leaving, Fresh Start, Environment

  4 Copy quote

• While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

  Julianna Baggott

  Catholic, Becoming, Catholicism

  4 Copy quote

• It was always assumed that I would go to college.

  Paul D. Boyer

  4 Copy quote