In School Quotes

It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didnt go to school because my home was my school.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

[Sandy] Kress says [Betsy] DeVos's record on school choice in Michigan sealed the deal.

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

I did plays in grade school.

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.

Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

Being #1 on MSN is like being Valedictorian of summer school.

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.

I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.

I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

I always remember liking school.

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

I was never very happy at school.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.

The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

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 was very good at kickball ... I was wonderful at ah doing that kick and your leg goes up and your shoe went on top of the school

They used to beat me up after Sunday School, I used to get beat up... yeah, that's a nice little thank you from Jesus.

I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.

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.

I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!