School Quotes · Page 196

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

— Doug Liman

I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

— Don Johnson

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

— Robert Darnton

“On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.”

— Ignazio Silone

“I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.”

— Joe Bob Briggs

I worked at a place called Virco. They build school desks.

— Scottie Pippen

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

— Boy George

During exams, students look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information.

— Anonymous

In high school, guys can get away with playing at a slower pace, or playing and only exerting a certain amount of…

— Jerami Grant

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my…

— Brie Larson

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…

— Maya Angelou

Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives…

— Kate Brown

I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's…

— Lorde

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or…

— James McGreevey

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing…

— John Waters

I was in high school and 9/11 happened. My boyfriend joined the army and I was extremely disgusted with this war fervour.

— Abby Martin

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke…

— Woody Allen

From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our…

— Dawna Markova

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high…

— Deborah Ellis

I didn't have a job in high school. Basketball was work for me; I put in enough hours that it could have…

— Dawn Staley

“At school, I couldn't help but grin. At home, something ripped under my skin when I smiled, trying to pretend that everything…

— Andrea Ashworth

The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in…

— Shakira

After music, trees are my passion. My great-grandfather was a forester, so maybe it is genetic. My father would take me for…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

— Joanna Newsom

“her parents had no way of telling her she was going away to school.”

— Lou Ann Walker

In school, if there was a sex class. Most of the females would pass it because they're known it by experience.

— Anonymous

Teacher: Get out a sheet of paper Student: LOOK AT ME NOW! Teacher: Excuse me? Student: IM GETTING PAPER

— Armin Ferizovic

Popularity gets you nowhere after high school, matter of fact it's the last thing on your mind.

— Anonymous

My parents are supportive of me, whatever school I go to.

— Jayson Tatum

When your mom dropped you off at the school, she got a ticket for littering.

— Curly

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.

— Dustin Lynch

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

— John Taylor Gatto

Whilst all my friends took the bus to school, I had to be chauffeur driven by my mum.

— Liz Carr

I always say it doesn't matter what age you are: everything is like high school.

— Katie Stevens

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

— Corrie Ten Boom

I finished high school, so now I'm planning to take a few classes in college when I'm not working.

— Megan Lee

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

— Imelda Staunton

I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.

— Michelle Gomez

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.

— Finn Wittrock