College Quotes - Page 31

• I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

  Jenna Fischer

  Moving, School, Want

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• I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

  Jenna Fischer

  Play, Focus, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.

  Missy Franklin

  Girl, Believe, Stills

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• I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.

  Jorja Fox

  Children, Thinking, Two

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• 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

  Artist, Interesting, Office

  "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

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• Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

  Lorrie Fair

  Team, Thinking, Play

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• In college you have the license to do things you'll never do again, so have fun with it.

  Thom Filicia

  Fun, Having Fun, License

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

  Will Ferrell

  Home, Years, Three

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• I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

  Kina Grannis

  Ideas, Important, Bigs

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• In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

  Tony Gilroy

  Writing, Remember, Application

  "Twister" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2009.

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• When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Comedy

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• When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

  David Guterson

  Writing, Class, Creative

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• I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teaching, Class, Abortion

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• I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

  Gareth Gates

  Girl, Life Changing, Who I Am

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• I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

  Gordon Gee

  President, Skins, Needs

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.

  Gordon Gee

  Crazy, Ohio State, People

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• College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

  Gordon Gee

  Ideas, Impact, Innovation

  "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

  Gordon Gee

  Believe, Answers, Transport

  "The Spark Lighting the Way" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

  Greta Gerwig

  Block, School, Play

  "Greta Gerwig on Damsels In Distress and tap-dancing into a role". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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• The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

  Helen Garner

  Art, Jobs, Teaching

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• When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

  Jeff Garcia

  Play, Want, Afl

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• After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Believe, Mystery, Cases

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• I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

  Melinda Gates

  Goal, Way, Valedictorians

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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