School Quotes

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.