Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sarandon

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.

Susan Sarandon

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Susan Orlean

I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

Susan Dey

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

Susan Choi

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.

Susan Cain

Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.

Susan Cain

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

Suraj Sharma

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

Stockwell Day

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

Stone Gossard

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

Sonja Sohn

I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

Sonja Sohn

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

Steve Jobs

When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in.... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.

Steve Jobs

School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.

Steve Jobs

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

Steve Case

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

Steve Coogan

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny.

Steve Coogan

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

Steve Coogan

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

Steve Coogan

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Stephen Sprouse

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Stephen Sondheim

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

Molly Tarlov

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

Minka Kelly

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

Mira Sorvino

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

Mira Sorvino

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

Mike Huckabee

But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.

Paula White

I was in school at the time, but at this time I'm in college. I'm holding up this bible and I say, God, who are you?And so I do nothing for the next two years of my life, virtually, but stay in the word of God and find out what is the answers to life.

Paula Poundstone

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

Philip Emeagwali

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

Philip Emeagwali

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

Peter Thiel

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.