Top 100 Quotes About Exam
#1. All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
David Bailey
#2. I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
Alan Bennett
#3. A college offers a course that prepares students for the state licensing exam for real estate brokers.
Paul J. Deitel
#4. After that first year, a classmate named Rhoda Isselbacher, who was pregnant during the exam period, informed the men she would use their bathroom whether they liked it or not.
Irin Carmon
#5. None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.
Morrissey
#7. You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!
Arthur Rimbaud
#8. I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#9. Birthdays need to be celebrated. i think it is more important to celebrate a birthday than a successful exam or promotion or a victory. because to celebrate a birthday means to say to someone "thank you for being you".
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#10. Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.
Joel Garreau
#11. We threw chew toys to Misty, Mom's golden retriever that she bought two years ago secondhand. Misty was supposed to be a seeing-eye dog, but she failed her exam because she's too affectionate. It's a flaw we don't mind.
Douglas Coupland
#12. In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
Cam Newton
#13. In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
Bill Gates
#14. No matter how long the preparation,
you will never feel ready to write an
exam, to start a business, to be parent
or even to die. Just go for it.
Moffat Machingura
#15. Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.
Jim Gaffigan
#16. New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for
your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men.
Bill Maher
#17. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
Terry Pratchett
#18. The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.
John Green
#20. The professor argues against measuring effectiveness in the shallow short-term in the "fierce humanities," for teaching that seeks not merely learning, but unlearning, that seeks to unsettle knowledge and assumptions in ways more fundamental than any exam can or should test.
Cary Nelson
#21. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin
#22. When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.
Lenny Abrahamson
#23. Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.
Neal A. Maxwell
#24. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment ... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe
R. Buckminster Fuller
#25. Penelope did not understand how this [study] group was ever formed. It consisted only of her mortal enemies. However, these were things you seemed to put aside during exam period.
Rebecca Harrington
#26. I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.
Steven Herrick
#27. Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.
Alexandra Adornetto
#28. EyeNetra makes a device that attaches to a smart phone to do refractions, the eye exam that determines if you need glasses and what the prescription should be.
Robin Farmanfarmaian
#29. Please be aware that your exam scores provide you only with your entrance into the school. They do not ensure your ability to stay.
Anne Osterlund
#30. In the grand scheme of things, the stuff that comes with a forewarning isn't really that important. We know when that big exam is, the driving test, a long-awaited holiday. But birth, death and the police knocking at your door tend to be a bit less predictable.
Donna Ford
#31. He looked like a man on his way to a prostate exam.
Kathy Reichs
#32. I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
Harrison Ford
#33. My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
Abraham Verghese
#34. Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don't Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can't Decide My Future
Thomas A. Edison
#35. I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.
Woody Hayes
#36. You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#37. I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
Nick D'Aloisio
#38. You can't drive a bayonet through a chap's body in cold blood," he remembered him saying. "And you can't go in for an exam. without drinking," said Edward.
Virginia Woolf
#39. I think half the trees in the world are felled to make up the IIT entrance exam guides. Most of them are crap,
Chetan Bhagat
#40. It is not about how intelligent you are or how good you score in exam but it is about how helpful you are and how much you made people happy
Vijay Dhameliya
#41. Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea.
If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness.
But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.
Rick Riordan
#42. According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the US Preventative Services Task Force, there is no medical reason for a gynecological exam to get a prescription for the Pill, with an annual repeat in order to renew it.13
Katha Pollitt
#43. After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism
Niall Ferguson
#44. To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
Jennifer Granholm
#45. The human brain was, on the whole, a marvelous thing. It worked perfectly from the day you were born until the moment you needed it to ace an exam or resist the show-and-tell of Flynn Cross's dick.
Kate Meader
#46. History is not just about the analysis of evidence, unrolling vellum documents or answering exam papers. It is not about judging the dead. It is about understanding the meaning of the past - to realize the whole evolving human story over centuries, not just our own lifetimes.
Ian Mortimer
#47. Looking after the baby is like taking some sort of terrifying, never-ending practical exam. All she does is respond to what the baby is doing. Feed baby. Change baby. Wash baby. Keep baby alive. Prepare for when baby wakes again.
Liane Moriarty
#48. You've been through my stuff. I bent over and let one of you stick the world's longest finger up my ass. If a prostate check is an exam, that was a motherfucking safari. I was scared to look down. I thought I'd see that guy's fingernail sticking out of my cock.
Stephen King
#49. Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.
Homer
#50. Not if I can help it," said Hermione grimly. "Flitwick told me in secret that I got a hundred and twelve percent on his exam. They're not throwing me out after that.
J.K. Rowling
#51. Well ... he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter?
Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male patients they treated, and coin bingo was typically how the staff decided who had to deal with him.
J.R. Ward
#52. I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part.
Garry Shandling
#53. Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.
Terry Pratchett
#54. The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life ...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#55. I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.
Jeffrey Tate
#56. I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
John Hurt
#57. I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
Carre Otis
#58. Therefore, reincarnation is an experience of the Ego, co-created by its ignorance, by not realizing that what reincarnates in the universe is God (Love) through his Sons, in an infinite multidimensional experience! (If you understand this, you already passed the final exam
Ivan Figueroa-Otero
#59. Leaking sacks of mutated maggots? He raises his perfectly arched eyebrow as though I'd just failed my verbal insult exam.
Susan Ee
#60. There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.
Allen Frances
#61. The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.
Jimmy McGill
#62. Not surprisingly, they frisked me like they were taking a frisking exam. To get into the Royal College of Frisking. Five times, head to toe, mouth, ears, crotch, soles of shoes. They tore most of my clothes from my body, and left me looking like an opened Christmas present.
Hugh Laurie
#63. I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.
Alice Munro
#64. From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
Tom Chatfield
#65. Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast self exams easy to perform.
Olivia Newton-John
#66. I always sat in the front so I could see the blackboard - I guessed I was probably nearsighted, not that we could afford an eye exam, much less glasses.
Mia Sheridan
#67. Life is also an exam but there is no provision for reappearing
Samar Sudha
#68. The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice.
Hermione snorted.
Well honestly ... 'the fates have informed her' ... Who sets the exam? She does!
J.K. Rowling
#69. Silly stress at the office or exam-related anxiety become less threatening when we refuse to let them affect us so personally.
Giulia Enders
#70. My friend Erin says we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we're no good, that if we don't make this promotion or ace that exam we'll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are Maybe that's true. Maybe mine just have louder voices.
Ruth Ware
#71. One of those nightmares where it's the final exam for a course
Tim Kreider
#72. I'm an apple expert. Apples are the only exam I could ever hope to pass.
J.L. Carr
#73. When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
Roddy Doyle
#74. He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane.
Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.
Jordan Castillo Price
#75. We all knew the exam we were going to sit this week.
Paul McGinley
#76. I go in for the eye test, and I don't know about you, but I concentrate like crazy during the eye exam. You don't want to get no 'D' on that thing and end up with these big thick Coke bottle glasses.
Brian Regan
#77. If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.
Warren Buffett
#78. But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
Robert Fulghum
#79. Do you know who will be in charge of health care? The IRS. You thought getting audited was bad? Wait until your next prostate exam.
Jay Leno
#80. My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
Peter Higgs
#81. Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
Albert Einstein
#82. I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
Bill Gates
#83. Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
Criss Jami
#84. I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
Edith Evans
#85. It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up feeling like an exam . . .
Lily King
#86. Mental aerobics must be done prior to the exam. Work your mental muscle. If smart nurses fail this exam it is usually from mental fatigue.
Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio
#87. All of this material on key length block size and the number of rounds of encryption may seem dreadfully boring; however, it's important material, so be sure to brush up on it while preparing for the exam.
James M. Stewart
#88. You're pretty smart for a Fed."
"I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could
get into the agency,
Diana Rowland
#89. I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.
Giuliana Rancic
#90. Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
Johann Lamont
#91. There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
Mordecai Richler
#92. Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.
Richard Dawkins
#93. Jackie patted her on the shoulder, "you know what you need?"
Ash peeked out from between her fingers."Eight hours of rest before tomorrows exam? Bug spray that repels assholes?
Karsten Knight
#94. None of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.
Richard Dawkins
#95. anyone who has crammed for a school exam knows how easy it is to misquote in a showdown.
Jack Lait
#96. If there was any idea that God had set us a sort of exam, and that we might get good marks by deserving them, that has to be wiped out.
C.S. Lewis
#97. VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.
Alexandra Adornetto
#98. Ehlena: Look, the reason I called was
Rehv: Because you needed an excuse. You shut me down in the exam room, but really wanted to talk to me. So you called me on the phone. And now you have me. (That voice dropped even lower) Do I get to pick what you do with me?
J.R. Ward
#99. But I've been in so much trouble. I threw an apple at Lea's face. I fought guards. I cheated on my trig exam."
Aiden looked at me, frowning. "You cheated on your math exam?"
"Uh, forget that. Anyway, wow, I'm just surprised.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#100. I remember I was supposed to take the bar exam that summer just when we got the chance to make our first feature. I told my parents I wasn't going to take the bar exam, and they were pretty upset about it.
Kevin Heffernan
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