Quotes About Detention In School

#1. Let me guess: you were one of those kids who had a chair dedicated to you in detention in school."

"Was not. They retired my chair after it sort of accidentally caught on fire. There's a plaque there now.

Toni McGee Causey

#2. I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Amanda Holden

#3. The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Joyce Meyer

#4. Our relationship feels different. Like someone has taken my favorite sweater and thrown it in the dryer and it doesn't fit right anymore. I want to pull and tug on it until it feels comfortable again.

Kasie West

#5. Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#6. No single move traps the king.

David Hare

#7. Listen.
Dead people never stop talking. Maybe because death is not death at all, just a detention after school. You know where you're coming from and you're always returning from it. You know where you're going though you never seem to get there and you're just dead. Dead.

Marlon James

#8. Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.

Jon Stewart

#10. (after Quigley explains that the ghosts have been feeding off of their misery)
Toma: So, what, we should think happy thoughts?!
Duane: That is not a talent of mine.

Ashley Cope

#11. When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you'd get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

Matthew Bellamy

#12. Just thinking. Man, Sophie, it's only your first day and you've already befriended the school outcast, pissed off the most popular girls at Hecate, and developed a full-blown thing for the hottest guy. If you can manage to get detention tomorrow, you'll be like, legendary.

Rachel Hawkins

#13. Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

David Talbot

#14. When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.

Gia Coppola

#15. The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#16. I will see every one of you in detention, first thing after school on Friday,

James Patterson

#17. I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

Raven-Symone

#18. Well, well, well, if it isn't Ms. Detention. How was it by the way? I'm sure your father was very proud.

Evelyn Smith

#19. They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

Kevin Keegan

#20. Less than an hour ago, all I'd wanted was detention. Now, I was nominated for homecoming court and going to the big dance with the hottest guy in school. Somewhere out there, God was laughing at me. I was sure of it.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#21. I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

Jake Lloyd

#22. I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

Luke Perry