Here's some memorable movie quotes about college life. Feel free to use them in a graduation speech, or just for a little inspiration! And if you have any of your funny, famous, or memorable college movie quotes, please add them to the discussion!
One's primary purpose at university level is to learn how to think. --Higher Learning
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Despite having these rights, very few people exercise them. It is that kind of apathy that corrodes our society from within. Your assignment this semester is as follows: to formulate your own political ideology. This will be dictated by your sex, background, socio/economic status, personal experiences, etc. etc. This course will be like anything in life – it will be what you make of it.-- Higher Learning
See past the paint, let us open our minds to a different idea. --Mona Lisa Smile
It's perverse, isn't it? People spend years developing their minds and educating themselves, but in the end, they just want to shut them off. -- Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity. --A Beautiful Mind
Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. -- Dead Poet's Society
Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run. --With Honors
Yes I’m a bum. But I’m a Harvard bum. --With Honors
There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed, because you know things can't possibly get any worse. --The Freshman
In my classroom there is always another question, another question to follow your answer. Yes, you’re on a treadmill. My little questions spin the tumblers of your mind. You’re on an operating table. My little questions are the fingers probing your brain. We do brain surgery here. You teach yourselves the law. But, I train your mind. You come in here with a skull full of mush and you leave thinking like a lawyer. --The Paper Chase
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. --Animal House
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