School Quotes · Page 223

Dear person who's sitting next to me on exam, please write bigger. Sincerely, I can't see what you're writing.

— Anonymous

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

— George Pelecanos

“School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

— Sarah Waters

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

— Ann Dowd

My dad was an old school guy, but my mom was very much like 'you feel what you need to feel.'

— Channing Frye

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

— Jack Quaid

I'd never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

— Nicky Whelan

Ever since I had decided to study at the National School of Drama, New Delhi, I had wanted to take up acting…

— Atul Kulkarni

As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting…

— Laura van den Berg

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do…

— Sloane Crosley

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted…

— Dimebag Darrell

I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and…

— Joseph Mawle

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip…

— Simone Giertz

I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got…

— Tamsin Egerton

I think Japans work really hard, and when they have a chance to listen to music, they just go crazy. And the…

— P. J. Soles

None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

When I was in high school... I loved the outdoors, and I was introduced to wilderness camping. I was in a little…

— Keith Carradine

My doctor said, 'If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you'll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2…

— Tom Hanks

I literally didn't know my father. My mother had been a secretary, and after she and my father split, she went back…

— George Carlin

“We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff…

— Jostein Gaarder

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in…

— Marie-Chantal Claire

Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.

— Frederick Lenz

I always felt my life wasn't going to start until I finished school.

— Lesley Sharp

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

— Shirley Hufstedler

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

— Zig Ziglar

All of our students should feel safe and supported when they go to school.

— London Breed

I like to say I was a creature in high school. A weird creature who had my hands in a lot of…

— Ross Butler

High school is just like glee, a bunch of people dying of drug overdose.

— Daniel Tosh

“The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.”

— Jolene Stockman

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

— Anonymous

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

— Curtis Hanson

No teacher, I don't know the answer. That's why my hand isn't raised.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I sneaked out of school to watch 'Nayakan.' I must have watched it at least 15 times at Anand theatre.

— Gautham Menon

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

— Barry Zito

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.

— John Holt