School Quotes · Page 188

I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.

— Alicia Vikander

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

— Hugh Hefner

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

— Charles Kuralt

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

— Michael Bloomberg

For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.

— Jonathan Levine

I have always been an active person, in school and even as a mother now.

— Pooja Bedi

When I graduated high school, I was 6-5 and 305. I think I swallowed a magic bean pill.

— Braun Strowman

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

— John Newcombe

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great…

— Peter Facinelli

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame…

— John Taylor Gatto

The way that I work is I didn't go to drama school or anything like that so I have no choice but…

— Esme Creed-Miles

We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That…

— Ed Weeks

There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields,…

— Sonam Wangchuk

I was allowed a freedom as a baby boomer to do whatever I wanted to do. My parents were able to give…

— Peter Frampton

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work…

— Harriet Martineau

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work,…

— Michelle Ryan

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life…

— Ishmael Beah

David Lynch was actually the one who first inspired me to become a filmmaker when I was in high school. His films…

— Paul Dalio

It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories…

— Colin Firth

In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In…

— Tom Paxton

Stony Brook is a great school scholastically and I enjoyed my time there. It taught me a lot about life and about…

— Chris Algieri

Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you…

— Rachel Hoffman

I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at…

— Robbie Coltraine

I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My…

— Larry the Cable Guy

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me…

— Walter Isaacson

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

— Christopher Fry

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

— Armin van Buuren

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

— Jake Epstein

I got expelled from school on pajama day…But its not my fault I sleep naked.

— Anonymous

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

— John Bright

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

— Aberjhani

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

— John Waters

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

— Kevin Richardson

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

— Benjamin Barber

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

— John Marsden

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

— Jessica Stroup

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

— Rajneesh

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

— Donald Trump

Every school, including voucher and charter schools, must be held to strict accountability standards.

— John Bel Edwards

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

— Simon Cowell