1980s Quote by Ben Elliot

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every…

— Laura Dern

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned…

— Vincent Cassel

“Think testosterone,’ says Matthew, ‘multiply it by πr2 and double it. Forget boys locked in boarding schools. They’ve spent ten months as a caterpillar…

— Isabella Tree

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

— Reid Hoffman

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding…

— Mark Shields

When I stepped foot into Princeton, I was surrounded by people who had been to boarding schools and high-level high schools and I barely…

— Jesse Marsch

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going…

— Jared Harris

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in…

— Arabella Weir

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

— Jerry Brown

“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

— Don Winslow