School Locker Sayings

#1. There was a kind of autumnal stain in the air that reminded me of the smell of leather work gloves, a high-school locker room at homecoming, the inside of an ancient canvas tent.

Michael Chabon

#2. And it's not like I'm the only guy in history to ever get a hard on in a high school locker room; for a lot of guys it's just a natural reaction to the cool moist air. But the trouble is that around certain guys, I'm radically reactionary.

Huston Piner

#3. Playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome - one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class - and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged

Walter Isaacson

#4. If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.

Frank E. Peretti

#5. The only rule is that you can't cross this line. If the ball hits you, you're
out. If someone catches a ball you throw, you're out. We'll keep playing until there are five of you left," Dinkleman explained.
I thought to myself, "What the fuck? That was like, four rules, not one.

Phil Wohl

#6. Hadn't they watched any high school comedies? We should have been whipping him with wet towels at this point, ferocious in our fury to protect the sanctity of the girls' locker room. Instead, they were concentrating on strategic posture shifts for maximum cleavagization.

Kiersten White

#7. What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity.

Robert Cormier

#8. Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Anwar Sadat

#9. You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."
"Oh I believe it," I said, thinking back to the time Angeline had forgotten her locker's combination and tried to get into it with an axe.
No one was really sure where she'd gotten it from.

Richelle Mead

#10. I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

Paul Dano

#11. Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

Winona Ryder

#12. California Governor Gray Davis visited an elementary school here in Los Angeles where he taught a class. I don't want to say he was unpopular but the kids gave him a wedgie and stuffed him in a locker.

Jay Leno

#13. I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

Kathryn Sansone

#14. Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

Alberto Manguel

#15. The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Alex Kapranos

#16. Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

Kami Garcia

#17. A big bonus was about as well concealed on the Salomon Brothers trading floor as the results of a hot date in a high school boys' locker room.

Michael Lewis

#18. He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.

Robert Cormier

#19. Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt.

Joshua Neik

#20. I want to know: How does a space suit on Mars work? Show me how it is pressurized, and how it is cooled. What's the glove design? None of that stuff can be bought off the rack. It does not exist. You can't just go to SpaceMart and buy those things.

Chris Hadfield

#21. First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.

Jordan Francis

#22. Tell you what," he said, noticing my stare. "I know you can't get a license, but I might be able to do something better."
"What?"
He smiled. "How would you like to come to school with me tomorrow and see a real, live locker?"
I'm pretty sure I squealed.

Kiersten White

#23. I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

Tommy Lasorda

#24. Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

Michael Reed

#25. Christ Jesus is full of compassion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. "Impressive.

Colleen Hoover

#27. Don't you see any contradiction between being a Christian and being the chauffeur for a major right-wing figure?

Haruki Murakami

#28. In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.

Rodney Dangerfield

#29. Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

Richard Paul Evans

#30. I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

Michel Houellebecq

#31. Every day, whether I am teaching or entertaining - I absolutely love bringing different people and cultures together.

Marcus Samuelsson

#32. Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker, ...

Stephen Chbosky

#33. I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake!

Peter Jacobson

#34. I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

Harry Chapin