In School Quotes

I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school So that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

My kids, that's my biggest accomplishment. Being able to have talented and smart kids. They are doing something I didn't do. I didn't finish school so...that's my biggest accomplishment.

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

But puberty was... well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know?

The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

I can't wait to be a mum for a bit. I'm always a mum, of course, but I want to be domesticated and be in my house and do the school runs and all that.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

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.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

I can remember riding in the car with [my daughter] Amelia, when she was very small, and we'd talk about money the same way we'd talk about sparkly shoes or what had happened at school.

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

Call school, tell them I'm lovesick.

Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"..."But I thought it was just the one time?

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.

I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

Follow me and do exactly what the song says Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people And drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.