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Quotes About College

I only date college guys." "You don't know any college guys," Kami pointed out. Angela's gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. "Which leaves me with more time for napping.
~ Sarah Rees Brennan
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
~ Sargent Shriver
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
~ Stephen Malkmus
I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.
~ Terry Bozzio
We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.
~ Katya Chamma
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
~ Margaret Haddix
I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.
~ Mark Teixeira
The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.
~ Mark Vonnegut
I'm subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I'm asked is where I went to college.
~ Mark Vonnegut
There is all the same some truth to the allegation that — as one intimate put it — the American Revolution could be blamed on the Harvard College library.3
~ Stacy Schiff
There were fewer female physicians in 1930 than at the start of the 1920s, and women were a smaller proportion of the college population.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party kind of movie. More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think something like that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Is there any point in hosting a party for time travellers? Would you hope anyone would turn up? In 2009 I held a party for time travellers in my college, Gonville and Caius in Cambridge, for a film about time travel. To ensure that only genuine time travellers came, I didn't sent out the invitations until after the party. On the day of the party, I sat in college hoping, but no one came.
~ Stephen Hawking
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.
~ Stephen King
I'm a typical college girl; I love to shop and gossip with my roommates about boys and whatnot.
~ Alicia Sacramone
Why do they say, "Give it the old college try?" Based on our experience, "the old college try" would consist of sleeping in for four years and not giving a damn.
~ Jon Berahya
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.
~ Jon Krakauer
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
~ Jon Secada
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
~ Jonah Hill
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
The oldest current College Program Housing, Vista Way Apartments didn't come into use until 1987.
~ Eric Root
Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge," said Stephanopoulos. "He was a student at St. Martins College.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Hannah's Oberlin friends, a gaggle of food-co-op-looking people, came up and hugged me one by one.
~ Ben Dolnick
College students' sense of moral righteousness doesn't come from achievement – it comes from believing that you are a bad person. You are a racist and sexist; they are not. That makes them good, even if they don't give charity, have never met a black person, stand for policies that impoverish minority communities across the United States, and enable America-haters around the globe. It
~ Ben Shapiro