School Quotes

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.