School Quotes

• I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Attention
  • Dress
  • I Remember

• I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Hope
  • Research
  • Paint

• There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • School
  • Literature
  • Talent

• I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • King

• We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • School

• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Book
  • Reason

• We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • School

• The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

  

  Max Stirner
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Song

• I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

  

  Blake Lively
  • School

• Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • School

• 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

• My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • School
  • High
  • Girlfriend

• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  

  William T. Wiley
  • Good
  • Buried
  • Brainwashed

• I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • High
  • Hero
  • High School

• In high school, some of the guys were really into music. When I first joined the team as a sophomore, I was blown away when we came out for our first home match. I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. The seniors would bring their whole stereo system. We started by yelling and stuff inside this little room just off the gym; then the coaches said, "Ready. Go!" We threw open the door and came running out. Even when I hear the songs now I get all jacked up.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Home
  • Song
  • Team

• I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• Life got very good - we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff - drums, a PC, turntables.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

  

  Francois Nars
  • People
  • Work
  • Photography

• That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Math

• I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • High
  • Funny
  • inspirational

• It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

  

  John Bright
  • School

• Yay, me - I made it out of high school alive and well!

  

  Lourdes Leon Ciccone
  • School
  • High

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