School Quotes

• Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Boy
  • Sing
  • Heroes

• You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • High

• I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • School
  • Loved

• Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • School
  • Art
  • Like

• In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining and expansions of school choice.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • School

• Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Dream

• My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Band

• I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Nice

• As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • People
  • Kids
  • High

• I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Music
  • High

• When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • People
  • High
  • Weird

• I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • High
  • College
  • Taken

• I always liked airplanes, and I decided I was going to go to school to study them.

  

  Brian Binnie
  • School
  • Study

• As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • Music
  • School

• There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Violence

• Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something. "Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Name
  • Expected
  • Surprised

• At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Hope

• In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

  

  Mark Hamill
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • She
  • Day
  • Picture

• New Kids On The Block were never my thing; my middle school crush was on Rob Van Winkle.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • School
  • Kids
  • Crush

• I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone home when I first got there. Whenever I spoke to my mum, at the end of the call I would say, 'Love you, Mum', and she would say, 'Love you the most.'

  

  Ella McMahon
  • School
  • Home
  • She

• I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Music
  • School

• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

  

  Donna Leon
  • School

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