School Quotes

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.