School Quotes

• My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Writing
  • Money
  • High

• There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

  

  William Glasser
  • World
  • Done
  • Funny

• I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Life
  • Music
  • College

• To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • School
  • Society
  • Punish

• John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.

  

  Eric Close
  • School

• I was a homecoming king in high school! I was involved. I was a good member of the community, I thought.

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • Good
  • High
  • Community

• Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

  

  Dido Armstrong
  • Music
  • Why
  • Home

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

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Study

• I was always torn between wanting whatever I pictured as a typical high school experience and that being just a part I wanted to play. I've written about this, but one of those typical high school experiences was drill team. Like, I just really wanted to wear a uniform and get on the bus and be part of this group. As an only child, the idea of blending in - and literally everyone being in sync and not standing out at all - felt like kind of a fun family thing.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Fun

• As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

  

  David Dinkins
  • School
  • Law
  • Service

• After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • High
  • Success

• I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Study
  • Acting
  • New York

• I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went on this random journey to go be a professional wrestler.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Parents
  • College

• We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Sex
  • Dumb
  • Nonsense

• My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Music
  • Art
  • She

• I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

  

  Dustin Lynch
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Hurt

• Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'

  

  Christian Kane
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Band

• I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop our older two kids at school then write for a few hours.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • School
  • Kids

• Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • School
  • High
  • Read

• If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • School
  • Child

• I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Learning

• I know, when I was in film school, some of my films were silly, but a lot of them were more dramatic. I don't think I intentionally set out to do comedy stuff. I guess that's a consequence of coming up working with David O. Russell and skewing toward those sensibilities.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Silly

• I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • High
  • Pretty
  • College

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