Sayings About A School

#1. I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.

J.K. Rowling

#2. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.

Jessye Norman

#3. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

George W. Bush

#4. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

Jane Clayson

#5. I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up

Lenny Bruce

#6. I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.

Al Smith

#7. I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

Alia Shawkat

#8. I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

Manu Bennett

#9. The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

Russell Howard

#10. I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.

Lauren Worsham

#11. I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

Melissa Leo

#12. A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

Caterina Fake

#13. As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

Thomm Quackenbush

#14. I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor.

Yongsoo Park

#15. I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#16. I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.

George Carlin

#17. A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

Rosemary Daniell

#18. Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

George Lucas

#19. Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up.

John Grisham

#20. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving

#21. At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#22. I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

Ruth Wilson

#23. You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.

Lauren Kate

#24. I really like 'Gladiator.' I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a kid, 'U.S. Marshalls.' I like funny movies, too. 'Old School' and 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover' was up there; I liked it.

Matthew Stafford

#25. I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Lou Holtz

#26. Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

Albio Sires

#27. I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

Cassandra Clare

#28. Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.

Jenna Fischer

#29. I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Jeff Goldblum

#30. I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

Daniel Woodrell

#31. pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol

Eileen Granfors

#32. I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

Joanne Kelly

#33. You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

Roger Daltrey

#34. I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Diane Cilento

#35. Look, we ought to do this for our kids ... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

Robert D. Putnam

#36. You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

Theresa May

#37. I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

Ray Lewis

#38. We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have.

Cameron Diaz

#39. I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

Patricia Birch

#40. I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.

Katherine McNamara

#41. I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

Solange Knowles

#42. I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

Sofia Vergara

#43. I went to a military school, so I'm always talking like 'Yes, sir,' or 'No, ma'am.' I was doing that even before military school, so I've always had it, I guess.

Larry Fitzgerald

#44. If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

Leon Botstein

#45. 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

#46. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.

Malala Yousafzai

#47. I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

David Plotz

#48. I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

Stella Maeve

#49. One Kerry man seduced and was taking her to the ball. She felt like Cinderella it had taken her 16 and half years to get him to take her out anywhere not a mind to the school ball.

Annette J. Dunlea

#50. I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

Kate Ashfield

#51. You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

Peter Kreeft

#52. Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.

David Levithan

#53. I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.

Andy Daly

#54. This isn't a religious book though I mention God, not a medical advisory though I speak of pain. It's a circus, a mortuary, a grade school, a limousine ride. Will it be worth the paper it's printed on or the screen you hold in your hand? I just hope you remember it next week.

Chila Woychik

#55. The difference between a story and an essay is that the storyteller just wants to entertain the reader, while the essayist has been to graduate school.

Dinty W. Moore

#56. Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

J.K. Rowling

#57. If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport.

Helen DeWitt

#58. My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

Warwick Davis

#59. The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

Sam Mendes

#60. A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

Anita Roddick

#61. Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not. ... Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.5.2

Charles Duhigg

#62. I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Marie Curie

#63. Read, read . . . and then read some more. Read everything you can get your hands on! Reading to a writer is as medical school is to a doctor, as physical training is to an athlete, as breathing is to life.

Andrew Joyce

#64. Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

Richard Paul Evans

#65. Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#66. Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Gelila Bekele

#67. There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a little enthusiastic - and then there were the pathetic ones like me, who had parents that were just helpless to it, and bred as naturally as they might shit.

Anne Enright

#68. In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

Allison Silverman

#69. I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.

Jerry Hall

#70. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

Grace Lee Boggs

#71. There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

James McNerney

#72. If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.

William Kircher

#73. He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.

David Kushner

#74. I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

Stephen Colbert

#75. Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

Bill Cosby

#76. After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.

Colin Cooper

#77. Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#78. I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

Vanessa Minnillo

#79. There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.

Lene Marlin

#80. When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.

Gena Showalter

#81. In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We've been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends.

Jake Epstein

#82. I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.

Bo Burnham

#83. When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.

Cate Blanchett

#84. Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.

Selena

#85. In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

Chris Pine

#86. School yourself in all occasions to keep perfectly cool; maintain a perfect control of temper, come what will: one that can govern himself can govern others.

Roseanne Montillo

#87. Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.

Sarah Hall

#88. They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens and they're probably more successful than charter schools.

Charlie Munger

#89. I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

Francesco Quinn

#90. I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. As I said, I was a strange child.

Jennifer Sky

#91. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#92. I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

Victoria Beckham

#93. What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!

Sadao Araki

#94. I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

Richard Linklater

#95. She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.

Emily St. John Mandel

#96. I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'

Doreen Cronin

#97. Goodreads sports some of the social awkwardness of middle school. If you are looking for a friend, I promise no matter your background or book preferences I will be your friend.

Red Phoenix

#98. I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.

Sigourney Weaver

#99. You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Sofia Vergara

#100. I have a really small puppy, Georgie, and one of my favorite things is to take her to the park and play with her. I take two classes at middle school, math and chorus, and I love walking home with her after school.

Emily Alyn Lind