Amount Quote by Suze Orman

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high…

— Philipp Meyer

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

— Virat Kohli

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that…

— Elliott Carter

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so…

— Tucker Max

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes.…

— Cher

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard -…

— Jessica Chastain

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm…

— Ann Bancroft

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

— James Patterson

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

Acing a history test in seventh grade taught me nothing. Failing 95% of my grammar quizzes in eighth grade made me work harder and…

— Harry Enten