School Quotes · Page 84

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

— Maxine Peake

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

— Busy Philipps

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

— Les Dawson

I love St. John's Prep as a school. I like the people there, it's a great school.

— Pat Connaughton

I grew up loving country music from a young age and wanted to sing more than I wanted to sit in school.

— Carly Pearce

“Backstage passes at a middle school choir concert. I hang with a crew who knows how to live.”

— Hannah Johnson

My goal was like to play in the NBA. I didn't want to leave my country, my people, my friends - even…

— Zaza Pachulia

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports…

— Shimon Peres

My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time…

— James Blunt

In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get…

— Greg Abbott

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with…

— John Terry

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record,…

— Alexander McQueen

I was wrestling all the way to high school, but it kind of came in the same season as basketball, so I…

— Muggsy Bogues

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets…

— Khaled Hosseini

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

There are children who recognize that they have a special role, and they enjoy it. But there are also many who sense…

— Gotz Aly

Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids…

— Gary Cohn

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my…

— Mae Whitman

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

— Keith Carradine

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

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

My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom…

— Solange Knowles

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

— Tom Clancy

People feel like they know me, in a strange way, like they grew up with me or they went to high school…

— Kellie Martin

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

— Anonymous

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

— Scott Turow

I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.

— Lee Unkrich

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

— Terry Pratchett

At some high schools, you're the star player, and everything revolves around you.

— Sue Bird

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

— Martin Freeman

I really hope we have school tomorrow so we can spend some quality time with our teachers...said no one ever.

— Anonymous

That dank feeling when you know there's only one day left of school...

— Asa Butterfield

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

— Cyhi the Prynce

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

— Alice Mattison

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

— Anonymous

I'm seriously like the only one in my school with school spirit. Well F you guys.

— Anonymous

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

— Tinie Tempah