School Detention Quotes

#1. 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

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

James Patterson

#3. always asks how her nursing classes

Heather Gudenkauf

#4. 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

#5. Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. "You're mad."
"Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?

Robin Hobb

#6. 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

#7. It's a mean old world, but its up to us to make it heaven, here and now.

Robert Palmer

#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. Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

Woodrow Wilson

#10. Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

Emma Donoghue

#11. 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

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

Amanda Holden

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. For every problem, there exists a solution ... and at the very least ... an opportunity.

Michael McMillian

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. The ordinary price paid for a new play was less than seven pounds; Oldys, on what authority is not known, says that Shakespeare received only five pounds for "Hamlet.

William Shakespeare

#19. 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

#20. Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.

Ha-Joon Chang

#21. Please. Don't try and play games with me. It's belittling. I'm not stupid - I can spot a wolf in sheep's clothing when I see one - and your claws are showing. -Enoch Michelson

S.G. Night

#22. silver crucifix in a chain high in the air. "NO!" he yelled. "I command you to leave this body! I command you to leave her now!

Willow Rose

#23. Doctrine is not belief, it is only one way of talking about belief.

Marilynne Robinson

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

Jake Lloyd

#25. 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