School Quotes · Page 193

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

— Jason Mitchell

There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

— Vicky McClure

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

— David Dinkins

I run track in school! I also am looking forward to cheering next year!

— Kylie Jenner

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

— Mark Knopfler

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

— Beau Bridges

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

— Richard Quest

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

— Walker Stapleton

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless…

— Andrew Garfield

School is pointless. English: We speak it. History: Theyre dead, get over it. Math: We have calculators. Spanish: We have Dora.

— Bubbly

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took…

— Lev Grossman

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a…

— Kate Moss

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who…

— Sara Paxton

Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'

— Martin Wong

What you're experiencing now [on "MasterChef," on "Junior"] is what life's going to be like for the next four, five decades. You're…

— Gordon Ramsay

To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he…

— Thomas Hobbes

All kids are different, even when they come from you and theoretically have the same culture. Some of my kids had been…

— Pedro Noguera

I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team…

— David Chang

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have…

— Jimmy Carter

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly…

— Emily Dickinson

I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating,…

— Stephenie Meyer

Health coverage in the form of short-term, limited-duration plans has long been widely available to individuals in circumstances where they are unable…

— Alex Azar

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

— Lil Wayne

When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.

— Kimiko Glenn

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

— Christopher Darden

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

— Bill Dedman

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

— Rod Paige

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

— Richard O'Brien

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

— John Banville

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.

— Marshall Fritz

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

— Taufik Hidayat

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

— Steve Stockman

After all, once high school is over...none of it will matter.

— Anonymous

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

— John Taylor Gatto

“Hello, this school now comes complete with a walking buffet, and nobody gets to take abite?”

— Claudia Gray

Finals are coming up. Excuse me while I go crawl into a hole of despair...

— Anonymous

I wish I was just a naturally smart kid, having to try to your ass off in school sucks.

— Anonymous

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

— Anita Roddick