Academy Quotes · Page 7

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

— Sally Field

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

— Ally Carter

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.

— Gary Oldman

Having come through the academy at Southampton I have always been known as the academy boy, the way to go.

— James Ward-Prowse

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

— Jimmy Buffett

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were…

— Kyle Chandler

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a…

— Simon Newcomb

I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was…

— Garry Marshall

Is it morally right to be pushing football careers to 11-year-olds? I still wince every time a parent comes up to me…

— David James

Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences…

— George W. Bush

As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just…

— Rolf Harris

If you're at an academy you don't know anything else other than having everything at your feet. Having to work hard to…

— Ashley Barnes

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too…

— Clint Eastwood

“Amanusa sighed. She held out her hand to her husband who helped her to her feet. "Back to the salt mine Grey…

— Gail Dayton

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became…

— James Cromwell

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think…

— Diana Lopez

I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't…

— Tod Goldberg

Whenever someone asks me craft questions like that I feel like I can give one of two answers. I can give the…

— Ron Currie Jr

Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and…

— Jenny McCarthy

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the…

— Gerhard Richter

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

— Giorgos Seferis

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

— Kevin Smith

“My name is Dimitri Belikov. I've come to take you back to St. Vladimir's Academy, Princess.”

— Richelle Mead

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

— Richard Levins

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

— Ray Charles

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

— Jack Nicholson

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

— Bell Hooks

For me, the youth academy has a fundamental role in every club.

— Manuel Pellegrini

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

— Paul Mooney

I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.

— Jesse Spencer

“Even at the Gallagher Academy, they don't teach you to break somebody's heart.”

— Ally Carter

Our goal with Khan Academy Kids is to inspire a life-long love of learning.

— Sal Khan

At the top end, the pathway from academy to first team has never been more difficult for home-grown youngsters.

— Robbie Savage

Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

— Bob Hope

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

— Blixa Bargeld

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

— Kurt Vonnegut