School Quotes · Page 239

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

— Mark Frost

If I could remember school work like I remember lyrics I'd be a genius.

— Anonymous

It's always been like this since I left school - a lot of traveling.

— Jocelyn Wildenstein

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

— Mickey Rourke

Children thrive and grow in schools best when they're enjoying being with their friends and teachers.

— Gavin Williamson

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

— Josie Loren

If the world ends in 2012, I've wasted my whole life in school.

— Anonymous

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

— William Glasser

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being…

— Florence King

Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,'…

— Zoe Kravitz

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

— Charles Handy

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the…

— Katie Cassidy

Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.

— Bill Dedman

I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very…

— Daniel Suarez

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and…

— Barry White

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't…

— Junior Seau

I think back to when I was in high school, to 17-year old Daria, who was dating guys and thought that that…

— Sonya Deville

I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid. My friend - his name is William Aston - we…

— Lil Uzi Vert

There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring…

— Andre Holland

Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the…

— John Joseph Griffin

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then…

— Julia Stiles

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and…

— Thomas A. Edison

I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth…

— Chris Cornell

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

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

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

— Dakin Matthews

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

— Robert Musil

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

— Dane Cook

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

— Cardi B

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— William Marsh

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

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

— Stephanie Harvey

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

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Steve Wynn

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Martin Kemp

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

— Edwin Moses

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

— Jim Carrey