School Quotes

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.