Do Homework Quotes

#1. If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

Jenny Lewis

#2. When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

Taraji P. Henson

#3. If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.

Kara Hayward

#4. I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

Randy Travis

#5. I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.

Charlene Tilton

#6. Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They're constantly reminded they are preparing 'for real life,' while being isolated from it.

Sandra Dodd

#7. I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#8. When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.

Alan Furst

#9. We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

Candace Cameron Bure

#10. I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.

Catherynne M Valente

#11. If I was alone I'd find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it'd look like I wanted to be alone.

Julie Anne Peters

#12. You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

Jim Rogers

#13. The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

Amy Chua

#14. My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.

Nolan Bushnell

#15. If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

Jim Rogers

#16. If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

Anna Popplewell

#17. I guess it doesn't matter how much homework you do. When you're on set, you gotta forget it and throw it out the window and, hopefully, some magic happens.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#18. As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

Jim Cramer

#19. Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid.

Heath Ledger

#20. A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece of paper once, so I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then. My son's homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way. That way, it's not nagging me, things to add to my to-do list.

Adina Porter

#21. Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.

Andrew Tan

#22. You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

Michael Caine

#23. Right ... here's what we'll do: I'll get the kids. You take your shower. After homework and playtime, I'll challenge them to shots until they pass out. Then we'll eat the rest of their Halloween candy while binge-watching Game of Thrones.

Penny Reid

#24. I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

Mark Ruffalo

#25. I've been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me that even if you get past the casting director's door you've still got to do your homework: you've still got to work hard.

Rafe Spall

#26. Do your research. Do your homework. Learn what this man would do to our country in the name of preserving a brand of freedom that is as destructive as it is impossible to secure. Know your enemy.

Mira Grant

#27. My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

Georgie Henley

#28. I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that.

Tia Mowry

#29. It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.

Mike Birbiglia

#30. Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

Jane Brody

#31. So you're not going to die, are you?" she [Astor] asked politely.
"Not yet," I said. "Not until after you do your homework."
She nodded, glanced toward the kitchen, and said, "I hate math." Then she wandered away down the hall, presumably to hate math at closer range.

Jeff Lindsay

#32. It's my personality to be more quiet and reserved. I'm not going out every night to multiple things. I prefer to stay in and be with my children and do Spanish homework to make sure they get a good grade the next day.

Aerin Lauder

#33. But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when you're right. That can be the tagline of my life: 'It's Easy To Make A Fuss When You're Right.'

Ayelet Waldman

#34. She'd marry George who was richer anyway ... lies, all lies! "I want you to do your homework from now on," Powell told the child. "And

Diana Palmer

#35. I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

Vanna White

#36. What do schools do that for?" he grumbles. "What's the point of summer if they give you homework?"
"Exactly!

Victoria Schwab

#37. I've got a lot of homework to do, and none of it has anything to do with school.

Travis Thrasher

#38. Take care of your husband and do your "homework." For every headache you have there will be a women out there with an aspirin in her purse.

Jane Jenkins Herlong

#39. Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.

John Rosemond

#40. If you want me to fix your homework, you need to leave me alone." Then he spotted her. "You're back."
"Yeah." She glanced between him and Gabriel. "You do his homework?"
"Just the math. It's a miracle he can count to ten."
"I can count to one." Gabriel gave him the finger.

Brigid Kemmerer

#41. I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

Bruce Rauner

#42. Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

John Templeton

#43. I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.

Mark Harmon

#44. I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

Anna Paquin

#45. For somebody to be on a search means he or she is involved with these subversive topics, reading and comparing notes with allies, asking questions, daydreaming, brooding. Even though you have homework to do.

Anne Lamott

#46. Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.

Anwar Robinson

#47. They would send me notes on what's going on, and we would pitch in and talk about what we wanted to talk about on the show. I just really did my homework. It was more like a real job for me. Doing this talk show was like, "Wow, this is what they do?!" I can't even imagine doing it every day.

Tameka Cottle

#48. I would think of a quote, but I have to do my math homework

Benjamin Wang

#49. I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework.

John Tesh

#50. I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

Colin Stetson

#51. Before I forget, here's your homework. Where do you want me to put it?"
She pointed at the trash can. "Right there would be fine.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#52. Scientists are usually nice, organized, logical people who are very cooperative. I always learn a lot of science while shooting science stories and it helps to be able to speak intelligently to a subject about his or her field of work, i.e., do your homework before the photography.

Peter Menzel

#53. Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

Brad Thor

#54. Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

Lois Lowry

#55. The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

Michael Loceff

#56. I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

Steven Tyler

#57. They didn't hold Frankie as she sobbed for hours at a time without talking. They didn't make sure she ate even when she wasn't hungry. They didn't do her homework when she couldn't concentrate, or explain to our teachers why she was late to every class.

Sarah Ockler

#58. People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart
but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought.

Adelle Waldman

#59. Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,
Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,
Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way,
So I'm all of the love that could make it today.

Shel Silverstein

#60. I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

Johnny Miller

#61. When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

Meryl Streep

#62. The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

Edward Norton

#63. My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

Bette Midler

#64. Kink is only sexy when done between consenting adults," Nora said. "So don't do any kink until you're at least eighteen. No, twenty-one. Thirty. Thirty's a good age to start. And do your homework. And stay in school. And don't do drugs. God, I'm a hypocrite. Someone find me my beer. Please.

Tiffany Reisz

#65. I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

Freddie Prinze

#66. You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

Daisy Fuentes

#67. Do your homework and stand your ground.

Peter Bart

#68. We certainly strive for reality in terms of asking our audience to believe the motivations, reactions, and behavior of our characters, but do I know when Veronica has time to do her homework? Not really.

Rob Thomas

#69. That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.

Christina Milian

#70. My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

Vincent Schiavelli

#71. I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

Josie Loren

#72. You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework.

Peter Lynch

#73. The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.

John Sununu

#74. I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Ed Bradley

#75. I have six brothers, so I definitely was aware of Marvel more than I was of princesses, but once you're cast in a Joss Whedon Marvel show, you go and become even more of a bigger fan. You do your homework.

Chloe Bennet

#76. The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.

Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

#77. I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

Douglas Coupland

#78. To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.

Frederick Lenz

#79. I can still remember what I was like when I was sixteen. It was hell to be that excited. Then as now, orgasms gave no relief. Ten minutes after an orgasm, guess what? Nothing would do but that you have another one. And there was homework besides!

Kurt Vonnegut

#80. Do your homework all of your life.

Muriel Siebert

#81. I hate procrastinating, so much so that I often do my homework on Friday so it won't be hanging over my head all weekend long. The good
thing is, my (nonexistent) social life doesn't usually interfere with this quirk of mine.

Kim Harrington

#82. I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.

Lee Trevino

#83. So, what are you doing tonight?"
Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course."
You want company?" Carrie's looking wistful.
Do you have homework to do?"
Of course. WEther I do it or not is the real question.

Lisa McMann

#84. I am so depressed and bored I may even have to do some homework.

Louise Rennison

#85. Choking the gopher. What'd you think I'd do, my homework?

Simone Elkeles

#86. There's some [films] where I do a lot of homework and then there's some, where it's supposed to take you by surprise. So you kind of just want to get in there and have everything take you by surprise rather than just have him tell you how everything went down.

Ron Livingston

#87. There is plenty of homework to do!

Charlie N. Holmberg

#88. I'm not interested in politics, or being a part of them. I definitely do my homework and make sure that I know what's going on, and I'm responsible enough to be able to vote for people that I respect. But other than that, I've never been a part of the political world.

Kate Mara

#89. I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

Irwin M. Jacobs

#90. Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.

Joe Mantegna

#91. I don't strive for balance. I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids' homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the next audition or whatever scene I'm shooting next. Balance.

Adina Porter

#92. There was a shared sigh as the boys ran off behind Radley, thanking God for not killing them, and telling him how they'd be better people and do their homework from now on.

Joseph Eastwood

#93. Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Carl Crawford

#94. You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Meredith Whitney

#95. Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

Bono

#96. Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

Justin Hires

#97. Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.

Maria Bartiromo

#98. I'll fix your toes, he said, as plainly as if he'd told me to do my homework. He dropped onto his knees in front of me, then stopped, tilting his head as if trying to figure out where to put himself.

C.L.Stone

#99. Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.

Cheyenne Jackson

#100. We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

Lorraine Toussaint