School Quotes

• If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Political
  • Influence
  • Politician

• After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, and I would see him working with Mark Hamill or hear him doing the 'Transformers' or a 'G.I. Joe' or the 'Rugrats.'

  

  Ashley Bell
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You'll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you're really writing.

  

  James Salter
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Lost

• New York periodically goes through a real estate crisis. I didn't subscribe to the school that real estate only goes up.

  

  John Paulson
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.

  

  James Murphy
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

  

  Martha Beck
  • School
  • Parents
  • Attention

• I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.

  

  Amber Riley
  • High
  • Friend
  • Bullying

• I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.

  

  Emma Watson
  • School
  • Friends

• I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Life
  • Family
  • Alone

• I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

  

  Marie-Chantal Claire
  • Girl
  • Destiny
  • Greek

• I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.

  

  Jim Coleman
  • High
  • Cool
  • Thanks

• When I went back to New Hampshire after graduating from law school, my plan was to go work for a private firm because I had to pay some student loans off and make money and really just be in the private practice of law. Which can be very rewarding.

  

  Kelly Ayotte
  • Work
  • Money
  • Law

• I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

  

  Cory Monteith
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Remember

• The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

  

  Menander
  • Experience
  • Knocks
  • Curriculum

• I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

  

  Colin Angle
  • Life
  • High
  • College

• When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • Life
  • School
  • Tree

• When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my own comics about my teddy bear, whose name happened to be Ted.

  

  Marcel Dzama
  • School
  • Drawing

• I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.

  

  Luke Evans
  • School
  • Hair

• I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

  

  Andra Day
  • Church
  • Band
  • Singing

• I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • School
  • Band

• When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

  

  Jeff Perry
  • High
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• I was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, lived there a couple of times. My dad was in the Navy. So, we lived in Mississippi and South Carolina until I was 11, and then I moved to California, went to, you know, high school there in the Monterey Bay area.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • High
  • Dad
  • Couple

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