School Quotes
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When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
John Lasseter -
The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it. I went back to school, and then I started writing nonfiction kind of by accident.
Elif Batuman
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Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.
will.i.am -
I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.
Stewart Udall -
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
Anthony Horowitz -
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
John Wayne -
I'm proud to have opened two schools in Africa and one in Jamaica through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back.
Serena Williams -
Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides...
John Maynard Keynes
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
When I was a kid, there was teasing in school. Then when I was a teenager on 'Days of Our Lives,' I certainly experienced hurtful comments from 'fans' of the show.
Alison Sweeney -
After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.
Chris Rock -
When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.
Alexander Sutherland Neill -
To them, fae basically meant anyone who was vaguely magical who hadn’t gone to the right school, with the High Fae being the creatures referenced in medieval literature who dwelled in their own castles with a proper feudal set-up and an inexplicable need to marry virtuous Christian knights.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.
Katy Rose
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I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
Malachy McCourt -
I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.
Andrew Rosenthal -
I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.
Kevin Kwan -
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
Ernest Shackleton -
Here's a newsflash from the only High Preistess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. And believe me, I know dead. I've been there, done that, and got the frickin' T-shirt." - Stevie Rae
P. C. Cast -
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
Lenny Kravitz
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I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.
Aisha Tyler -
Educated men are so impressive.
William Shakespeare -
In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
Adam Sandler -
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
Ken Ham