High School Quotes

You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

Playing halfback in high school and college was marvelous! It taught me how to get to the end zone. I wanted to make my nickname "End Zone Tommy!"

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

The only thing that kept me out of college was high school.

I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be more expensive to do, so I sort of decided music would be more fun.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.

If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.

I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.

Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

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

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you?

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dad’s SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window.” The memory brought a smile to my face.

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.