School Quotes

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.

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.