School Quotes

"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker"

"And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees"

Jon Porter, Politician

"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening"

Brian De Palma, Director

"There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning"

William Scranton, Politician

"The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy"

David Niven, Actor

"It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries"

David Thewlis, Actor

"Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children"

George Shearing, Musician

"For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt"

Chuck Norris, Actor

"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days"

Bjork, Musician

"First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out"

Art Garfunkel, Musician

"I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them"

Blake Lively, Actress

"In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms"

Chuck Norris, Actor

"It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides"

Shane West, Actor

"By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group"

Shane West, Actor

"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's"

Tom Felton, Actor

"Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with"

Tom Felton, Actor

"I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school"

Tom Felton, Actor

"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

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