Quotes About Skipping School

#1. I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

George Clinton

#2. Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Cory Doctorow

#3. I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

Richard Madden

#4. I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.

Kristen Wiig

#5. I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

Tig Notaro

#6. Well, I figure if you're gonna screw things up by skipping school, the day better be worth it.

Katie Klein

#7. One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Hugh Jackman

#8. I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

David Mitchell

#9. Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#10. I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

Diane Keaton

#11. Customer: Where are your fictional novels?

Jen Campbell

#12. I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

Rutger Hauer

#13. I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

Damien Hirst

#14. I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

John Dyer

#15. Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.

Melody Manful

#16. We're bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion.

Emily Saliers

#17. I had never thought about what made someone a good whore - too close to home, perhaps - but I only needed to watch Finn for moments to see he was skilled at his trade.

Tabitha McGowan

#18. When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

Michael Bennet

#19. I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

Vince Flynn

#20. Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.

Marilyn Ferguson

#21. The Weaver wove herself from the thread of night, hair of moonlight, skin of stars. So old. Without beginning or end.

Cornelia Funke

#22. We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#23. Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.

Cesare Beccaria

#24. Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.

Ralph Marston