Scholarship Quotes

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About her mother`s younger lover when he made a move on her: "My mother nearly murdered me over that, then made me live with my father. So I couldn`t review my exam notes, which were at home. Because of that I got beat out of graduating valedictorian by a quarter of a grade point and lost my dream of getting a scholarship to attend Vanderbilt University. It was the worst disappointment of my life." (LA Times 3-11-06)

- Bettie Page

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

- Isabella Rossellini

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

- Emeril Lagasse

They always say the Miss America Pageant isn`t a beauty contest, it`s really a scholarship program. If that`s the case, why don`t we just put all the contestants on "Jeopardy!" (1984) and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

- Jay Leno

I studied film in high school and actually got a scholarship to go to film school. But I turned it down because I thought it would screw me up.

- Adam Jones

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn`t have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn`t possibly have gone.

- Trevor Nunn

A girl didn`t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

- Billie Jean King

In high school I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play and I got the lead. And she helped me to get into a conservatory, with a scholarship as a singer, and then I was accepted into the acting conservatory. This agent saw me, the summer before I went to conservatory, and while I was in school, I started working right away. And it worked out. - On getting into acting.

- Forest Whitaker

I think that anyone out there that puts the time and effort into it, you`ll find some kind of scholarship.

- Mary Davis

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

- Robert A. Heinlein

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

- Ronald Biggs

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I`m married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

- Victoria Jackson

I didn`t get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they`d given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

- Jim Jarmusch

(Banner is so committed to paving that road he even placed 5 golden tickets in select copies of his first album. Each lucky recipient got a $10,000 scholarship to the school of their choice.) The one thing I hate about America, ... is how they channel all these ideas to the urban community that are not conducive to us being functional people in America . They`ve got us thinking it`s negative to be smart; that it makes you a `nerd,` and that it`s cool to be late for everything and be unprofessional. Whenever I do an interview I have to wait around for the writer because they just assume that rappers are always late. So I`m trying to show that there`s nothing wrong with handling your business properly and doing what you`re supposed to and that there`s nothing wrong with being smart. Knowledge is what you need in order to survive!

- David Banner

It was just as close to Castleberry as it was to W.S. Neal and Castleberry had a very good basketball coach, ... I was into sports and loved basketball. They didn`t have a football team. I was an above average student in a class of 19. I was able to get an academic scholarship to Jefferson Davis Junior College when I graduated in 1970.

- Jeff Wilson

The subcommittee jettisoned the ethnicity complaint. They said it`s irrelevant to his scholarship.

- David Lane

His first concern was whether he could stay in the country and complete his scholarship.

- Robert Dunn

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

- Simon Raven

We certainly don`t need to get in a position where we have created some expectation that three or four years from now we can`t meet. Promising a full scholarship at this early stage is not a good idea.

- David Fowler

From the 10th grade until now, I`ve learned a lot more about college and how things worked. I really thought I could get a full scholarship wherever I wanted to. Unless they really need one, they won`t offer you.

- Chris Cook

I think it was very good for her because she ended up going to high school for only three years and she did that and had a very high grade point average. The scholarship just added to the fact that she just worked very hard,

- Andrea Hall

My favorite school is UNC. But I would be happy to play for any school that could at least offer me a partial scholarship.

- Joe Hill

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I`d done theatricals in college, but I`d done them because it was fun.

- James Stewart

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

- Alan Gummerson

Sure enough, it wasn`t long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

- Alfred Cooper

It`s not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That`s not academic scholarship.

- Allen Alley

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

- Alvin Lievsay

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you`re talking about a guy who has scholarship offers from around the country, ... I think the thing that separates him from other linebackers is he doesn`t have just good speed for a linebacker, he has elite speed and he still has that size, too.

- Andy Chaytor

I have to start narrowing it down. It`s going to be a big, big day for me when I finally sign the scholarship papers, but at the same time it will be good to have this off my back. Even after I make my verbal commitment, I know I`m still going to have schools trying to change my mind.

- Anne Stevenson

Because we were terminated, we weren`t eligible for any of those things, so if my children wanted to go to college and apply for a Bureau of Indian Affairs scholarship -- we`re not Indian,

- Archbishop Gomez

A promising career can be cut short, ... The knee is the number one body part injured in football and a single injury can cost a scholarship or end a career.

- Astrid Ganssen

(Going to Division II would be costly, Moore said. The NAIA limit on football scholarships is 24, Moore said, while it`s 36 the Division II level. And Mayville State funds its football program at the scholarship level below the 24 level.) We`re at the bottom in terms of scholarships, ... And we`d have to add two sports. We have eight sports now, and 10 are required in Division II. There are other costs, too.

- Aubrey Jewett

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

- Barbara Collins

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don`t think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn`t even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don`t know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.

- Robert Inchausti

There was nothing left for me to do. You know, it’s all part of a lifetime. What I’d love to do most was play baseball, and I tried out in high school. I was always a big baseball fan, and I used to hit left handed and right handed. So, when I went to college, they asked my coach from high school if I would be good enough for a scholarship. He said, “Al Morris bats left handed and right handed -- and strikes out both ways.” That was their report on me.

- Tony Martin