School Quotes

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out.

Technologically we can deliver the ability of parents to be able to log into a school intranet, be able to see what homework has been set or look at lesson planning, whether the child is attending, see what the timetable is like, all of that is possible and there are some schools that are doing it already.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.