Expelled From School Quotes

#1. Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

Clive James

#2. You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

Colin Mochrie

#3. It would be a shame to get expelled from school (or arrested) for trying to stab the principal with a ballpoint pen just because he doesn't use enough deodorant.

Rick Riordan

#4. I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

J.K. Rowling

#5. We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

Ronald Reagan

#6. If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. All paradises are there to be expelled from.

Amanda Craig

#8. No pleasure here on Earth I find. For in this world, I'm bound to ramble.

Ralph Stanley

#9. Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

Thomas Haden Church

#10. I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.

Theo James

#11. Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Gary Busey

#12. For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.

Gavin Hood

#13. All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Fernando Pessoa

#14. She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

Simon Doonan

#15. I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

Poppy Montgomery

#16. See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan

#17. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson (Lightning Thief)

Rick Riordan

#18. I got expelled from my school when I was 12; I was quite bad!

Robert Pattinson

#19. I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

Charlie Hunnam

#20. Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Robert Redford

#21. If you get a pant that fits the woman, as all women know, you get a loyal customer for life.

Mickey Drexler

#22. I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

Sarah Miles

#23. I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

Rick Riordan

#24. I figured we'd catch you with a girl one day, but this isn't quite the scenario I imagined.

Brigid Kemmerer

#25. It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

James J. Kilpatrick

#26. Since nothing is free, to each his price.

Gore Vidal

#27. I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for the money, the limousines or the girls? The answers are: no, no, yes yes yes!

Pat Paulsen

#28. When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.

Emmanuel Jal

#29. Roger Daltrey had been expelled for smoking, but was still impudently showing up on campus to visit his various cronies. I'd first met him after he won a playground fight with a Chinese boy. I thought his tactics were dirty and when I shouted as much, he came over & forced me to retract.

Pete Townshend

#30. One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist.

Heinrich Boll

#31. I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.

Lennox Lewis

#32. Because he knew that he was coming for the last time. That morning he had been expelled from the Architectural School of the Stanton Institute of Technology.

Ayn Rand

#33. Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue, said Sirius.

J.K. Rowling

#34. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.

Jennifer Bosworth