When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
“It was Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series, 1997-2003, not the lackluster movie that preceded it) that blazed the… — Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling Copy Share Image
aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If the NFL can keep getting away with forcing players to wait three years out of high school before they're drafted -… — Skip Bayless Copy Share Image
In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe. In between my junior and senior years, I went away to… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“I suddenly felt vulnerable. Continuing the journey without Mr. Kadam left me anxious. It felt like the first day of high school… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“So why exactly are you here? I told you, I’m flattered, but you still look as though you’re barely out of high… — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
“As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of "niggardly," who otherwise would never have heard… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“The families of graduating seniors emptied out of cars, sheepish in uncommon splendor, like milling clans at the origin of a parade.… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“The great irony for a man in my position is how little use I have for organized religion. I am essentially a… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was… — Kyle Abraham Copy Share Image
We flirted with popularity in high school, which was when people realized that our videos, if used for a class assignment, would… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to… — Charlotte Arnold Copy Share Image
“When I told my parents that I was going to sea, they didn’t ask any questions and seemed to take it all… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“And then it developed that Campbell was not going to go unanswered after all. Poor old Derby, the doomed high school teacher,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In high school we'd grapple on my friend's trampoline for hours. Sometimes we'd have a party at a house. We'd take challenge… — Carlos Condit Copy Share Image
I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“The only thing I knew about pickups was this: growing up, I always inwardly mocked the couples I saw who drove around… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
My family and I moved at least six times before I graduated high school. I was fortunate to have a large family… — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
2Pac never attended college, Lucille 'O' Ball was kicked out of acting school for being too shy, Bill Gates dropped out of… — Justin Copy Share Image
I remember when the O.J. verdict was read; at my high school, all of the teachers were like, "We are stopping class… — Jodi Sweetin Copy Share Image
When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
“I thought maybe if you wore different clothes at school,' Paul said, 'maybe you could start a trend. You'd be original.' 'Oh,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Unlike Kate, by then I’d had a job. In fact, I’d had sixteen jobs, not including the years I worked as a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I grew up thinking of her as our Elsie, not as someone else's mother. She was the black woman who had cleaned… — Kristen Green Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of… — Jillian Rose Reed Copy Share Image
“mother's love of books and spent a great deal of time outdoors, where she grew up independent and free spirited. Nature became… — Sandra McLeod Humphrey Copy Share Image
Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing… — Charlie McDermott Copy Share Image
“She's on his mind again. Her mind is on the boy that smiled at her today. That boy's mind is on another… — Everance Caiser Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think everyone should be handed a manual for this stuff when they turn fourteen. That seems like a good age.… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image