Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.
Sylvia Plath
Related When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ... DEONTAY WILDER I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes. COLLEGE SENIOR It is important to remember that it was indifference that allowed the Holocaust to happen and it was... MARQUETTE COLLEGE Tuition is expensive already. I don't see a reason to increase it. MARQUETTE COLLEGE I think it's ridiculous. That's a huge increase. MARQUETTE COLLEGE Well, [the flier distributors only got through] the first door, so it doesn't really bother me. As l... SARGENT COLLEGE The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke... DEANGELO WILLIAMS That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a... ADAM DEVINE On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the la... AMIT KALANTRI There's a misconception that our students won't go to college. We offer everything other schools off... MARGARET SCHOELLES People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or n... MICHAEL MOORE For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their ... LEE UNKRICH Guys who go to junior college have to go to junior college for a reason. So for it to be in the midd... JODY ALLEN Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime in... BILL VAUGHAN I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties. DANIELLE FISHEL These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity i... MICHAEL N. 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JULIE BOWEN Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif... J. D. VANCE As I started doing really well, some college coaches started to notice me. By the end of my junior y... CASSANDRA PARTYKA We are a small college. To get the college the exposure the band brings to the institution is pricel... DONOVAN WELLS I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations com... GEISHA WILLIAMS I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D. CRAIG VENTER I didn't want to play junior college football. I just wanted to go home and focus on basketball. I k... KENNY WILLIAMS I was looking around for study guides for college algebra. As a first-grade teacher, I don't use col... KAREN CHRISTENSEN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't. L. L. HENDREN My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my pare... JACK RAMSAY We clearly don't want to send the message in this program that we don't want people to go to college... GINO NALLI It is important for parents to ask for information from each private college about the various merit... BRIAN GREENBERG It is important for parents to ask for information from each private college about the various merit... BRIAN C. GREENBERG Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income... BILL VAUGHN Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't. L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. L. L. HENDERSON Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are go... ALEXIS HERMAN When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur. WILL ROGERS State College was small then. You more or less knew everyone. HELEN HAUGH I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but lo... ELLEN DEGENERES If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another colleg... R. ALBERT MOHLER JR. My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high scho... THEODORE SCHULTZ Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to coll... BLAKE SHELTON Die and endow a college or a cat. ALEXANDER POPE Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition t... ELTON GALLEGLY A college joke to cure the dumps. JONATHAN SWIFT I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campu... ADAM RODRIGUEZ The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared... ELIOT SCHREFER We find deals for the people who need it the most: the college students. We might find deals on vide... PHIL EDWARDS I really stumbled into this. When I started at this college, I had no expectation of necessarily doi... GARY KESSLER When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a S... CALVIN JOHNSON I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college ... DANA HILL A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss... K. FLAY College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e... DAVID SZE I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angele... DYLAN BRUCE These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully... DON BOHANAN I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I... CALLIE THORNE After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college. LLOYD ALEXANDER We wanted a college-age audience. The material works well for an adult nightclub audience, but it re... REBECCA REYNOLDS My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a... GABRIEL MANN That's what I'd do in college. That was my college interception dance. DEWAYNE WHITE Suicide students are cowards,for they try to escape life's college of challenges,by chanelling their... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and liv... GERALD CHERTAVIAN That was my college interception dance. That's what I did in college. All the people who watched me ... DEWAYNE WHITE You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!' WALTER BECKER When you go to college, your NBA value seems to go down. You can't get better when you go to colleg... LAWRENCE ROBERTS It used to be only the smartest students went to college; but as more people go to college, we have ... RONALD RANDALL We got the idea for College Funding Services from Bill, who's been our mentor while we put the busin... JEFFREY MCCORMACK College isn't the place to go for ideas. HELEN KELLER I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Then I got a call from Eastern Oklahoma State, a junior colleg... LUIS AVILA I graduated from junior college. Ohio State is going over my transcripts to make sure I have all the... LARRY GRANT I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingh... TAMSIN GREIG I really want to go to college. SAOIRSE RONAN We at Texas A&M University-Commerce are delighted to work in partnership with Paris Junior College o... JAMES CONRAD Teams draft mostly college players now, ... and a black kid from a poor family can't go to college u... JOE MORGAN And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine. RUBE GOLDBERG College isn't the place to go for ideas. HELEN KELLER I had one of my good friends kicked out of college for domestic violence. He had his college career ... ERIC TURNER A college education shows a man how little other people know. HALIBURTON A college education shows a man how little other people know. THOMAS C. HALIBURTON A college education shows a man how little other people know. THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON I wanted to go to a junior college for two years so that I'd have a better chance to go to a bigger ... BRITTANY LEONARD He's obviously a project. He's willing to work, but the payoff may not come until sometime in colleg... BERNIE PEARSON He was going to work on bridges in college and he decided that he really loved to draw and he got ve... GARY MORE I'm proud of the way he's kept his spirits up and continued to work hard. In college, what he did go... JABARI LEVEY We'd like to see both sides work out their differences and the college reinstate Bosley to her forme... KATHY LAWRENCE This type of person wants his or her gift to work for their college the same way they see things in ... JOANNE CARR I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six pl... JOHN CORBETT Everybody forgets Brandon hadn't played baseball in two years (before joining the T-Bones). He shoul... AL GALLAGHER The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it,... BUNKER ROY When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Roberts... SI ROBERTSON I'm looking to have a Division I-caliber team with high school recruits and junior college transfers... HENRY WHITE That's my top goal, to go to college. DANIEL PAYNE I haven't decided yet where I want to go to college. But I want to wrestle in college. I want to kee... BRAD BLERSCH My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horr... AARON LEVIE It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always tr... THOMAS EDWARD BROWN
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