Quotes About Flunking

#1. I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition.

J.D. Salinger

#2. Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

Al Yankovic

#3. The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Robert M. Pirsig

#4. How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

Thomas Sowell

#5. English teachers would wince and cover their ears and give them flunking grades and so on whenever they failed to speak like English aristocrats before the First World War.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

Daniel Handler

#7. So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Dustin Hoffman

#8. How did he keep playing when money got
really tight, and there was no more food in the house? How did he play on when it became clear he was flunking out of school? Was music really enough when the whole world seemed to be collapsing around him? Or was it just the only thing left?

Antony John

#9. When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

Tim Scott

#10. The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.

John C. Dvorak

#11. I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

Stacey Snider

#12. It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

Juan Manuel Santos

#13. As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read it, and that is the definition of a classic.

Carl F. Hovde

#14. The good news of the gospel is that who we are is okay. Our best is good enough. The Savior came for us
just as we are.

Chieko N. Okazaki

#15. I go to McDonald's every day. But I don't eat much.

Brandy Norwood

#16. I'd been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn't remember exactly, although blood was involved.

Spencer Quinn

#17. I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Jeannette Walls

#18. Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.

Ben Lee

#19. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#20. After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not done since my ill-starred Tintagel honeymoon with Madame X.

David Mitchell

#21. I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

Sandra Cisneros

#22. Craft your love into everything

Lulu

#23. Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety

Woody Allen

#24. Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Andrew Young

#25. It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

J. William Fulbright