School Prefect Quotes

#1. Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.

Dominic Raab

#2. Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Jerrold Nadler

#3. Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Lactantius

#4. I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Confucius

#5. I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

Alice Temperley

#6. The world is a freakshow for my peeping eye's delight.

Suehiro Maruo

#7. Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Julia Gillard

#9. A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

Arthur Miller

#10. I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.

Paula Cole

#11. Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Joe Baca

#12. It was primary election, but [Donald] Trump hasn't spent a lot of money. Not compared to - I mean, Jeb Bush had a $115 million super PAC, and he has six delegates. It's not a dream, but it's something I do think about.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Amanda Holden

#14. A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Max Lerner

#15. From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten.

James A. Michener

#16. Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

Courtney Summers

#17. But that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry

Adriana Trigiani

#18. It's a dungeon, Leila. They're Supposed to smell.
Mission accomplished. The stench might have actually killed my new appetite. If hell could fart, it would smell like this.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

Elton John

#20. The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

Martin Amis