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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. — Bob Dylan

As a mental exercise I like to plan the murder of friends and colleges. — Sherlock

Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as social work. — Stephanie Coontz

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University. — Jason Alexander

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two. — John Updike

Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them, — Chetan Bhagat

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. — Carter G. Woodson

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets. — Jill Biden

The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges. — J. Paul Getty

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. — Mark Twain

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays. — Adam Carolla

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. " — Henry Rosovsky

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges. — David Talbot

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them. — Adam Sandler

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach. — Will Rogers

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks. — Noam Chomsky

The state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man ... — Meg Waite Clayton

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

In engineering colleges, they have seating plans ... And Students have cheating plans. — Lovely Goyal

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors. — Azim Premji

I recommend that you change colleges. — Mark Rippetoe

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. — Laura Matilda Towne

We were scholars long before colleges. — Nasir Jones

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level. — William A. Henry III

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. — Clayton M Christensen

As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans. — Bernie Sanders

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges. — Damian Green

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. — Woodrow Wilson

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know. — Learned Hand

The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. — Robert Green Ingersoll

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work. — Gay Talese

As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. — Henry David Thoreau

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing. — Rick Ross

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career. — Barack Obama

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns. — Steve Alford

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to. — Thomas G. Stemberg

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. — Constance Baker Motley

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace? — Audrey Hepburn

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics. — Rodney Brooks

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. — Constance Baker Motley

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence. — Kent McCord

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. — Thomas Sowell

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions. — P. J. O'Rourke

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges. — Terrence J

Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things! — Booker T. Washington

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window. — Rosie O'Donnell

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students. — Jill Biden

I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out. — Spencer Dryden

On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents. — Patrick Modiano

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. — George Horace Lorimer

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research. — Clayton M Christensen

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, — Eduardo J. Padron

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. — William James

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except ... in American colleges. — Paul Harvey

A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms. — Craig Ferguson

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities. — Betty Dodson

American colleges and universities are propaganda machines — Walter Benn Michaels

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? — W.E.B. Du Bois

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life. — Ray Bradbury

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government. — Mahatma Gandhi

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. — Theodore Roosevelt

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment. — Dorothy McFalls

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. — Dean Smith

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business. — Vigen Guroian

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks. — Jeff Foxworthy

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad. — Gene Weingarten

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white. — Jimmy Smith

Colleges should remember that selecting students by GPA more often benefits the faithful drudge than the original mind. — William Deresiewicz

Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity. — Greg Gutfeld

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability. — Barack Obama

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs. — Jill Biden

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges. — Ezra Cornell

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students. — Lewis M. Branscomb

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education. — Malcolm X

The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges. — Jim Finks

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny. — Lewis Black

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions. — Paula White

I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind. — George Carlin

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson