School Quotes · Page 198

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

— Paul Westerberg

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

— Malcolm Mclaren

Success for me has been turning a hobby into a job and when my kids left school, I did the same for…

— Martin Kemp

My great heartbreak was completely botching my callback for Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar' in college.

— Leigh Bardugo

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

— Steve Wynn

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

— Jim Carrey

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

— Edwin Moses

The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because -…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I was a sportscaster right out of school. I used to do the nightly newscast and the nightly sportscast and I would…

— Chris Harrison

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed…

— Paul Nurse

All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom.

— Amy Purdy

“It feels like I already know what I want to do, and school is wasting my time. Like they assume we don’t…

— Francesca Zappia

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million…

— Sonny Vaccaro

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is…

— Mitch Hedberg

I think about some of those parents and friends of mine who have to turn their kitchen tables into home offices and…

— Margaret Brennan

In my career, if you follow my career and watched everything that I've ever done from the time I was in high…

— Ken Shamrock

I've know Justin since I was a child. I went to school with his younger brother Michel, who died in the Avalanche.…

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

When I was 19, I went door to door selling long-distance phone service to put myself through school. I was studying to…

— Lyriq Bent

“The one that we’re involved with is that kids are natural learners. That’s the paradigm we know is true, and modern brain…

— Ken Robinson

I come from the school of hip-hop where you just buy records and sample records all the time. Doing that is tough…

— Frank Dukes

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate,…

— Andrew Luck

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to…

— Mao Zedong

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile…

— Pico Iyer

“Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.”

— Stephanie Harvey

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

— Edwin Markham

A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.

— Heather Mac Donald

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school…

— Alia Shawkat

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

— H. L. Mencken

I love Lady Gaga. When I was in high school, I really wanted to dress like her.

— Cardi B

High school is not a place to discover your passion but a good place to dream big.

— William Marsh

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

— William Glasser

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

— Dane Cook

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

— Robert Musil

'School for Wives' is Moliere's first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.

— Dakin Matthews

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

— Stanley Clarke

I did all of high school, 9th through 12th grade and even growing up, I was always a point guard.

— Kevin Huerter

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

— Bud Luckey