School Quotes

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I loved doing problems in school.