Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lilly Pulitzer

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

Paul Simonon

I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools.

Paul Merton

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Paul Merton

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

Paul Cezanne

Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?

Patti LuPone

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

Patricia Reilly Giff

Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

Patricia McConnell

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.

Madonna Ciccone

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

Macaulay Culkin

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

Mac Miller

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Lydia Ko

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

Luke Perry

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

Luke Perry

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 Wilson

Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.

Louis L'Amour

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Louis L'Amour

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

Louis Farrakhan

I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The Black and the Brown." Is that an accident? I don't think so. We are being designed to be destroyed - and unless we see that, and come together as a people under vicious attack we will suffer the consequences of evil that's in high places.

Lorraine Bracco

I learned nothing while I was in school.

Lorna Luft

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

Lleyton Hewitt

I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play, I don't need to go too far.

Lizzy Caplan

I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.

Lizzy Caplan

I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.

Lizzy Caplan

Don't peak in high school.

Michael Jordan

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

Michael Jackson

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

Michael Cudlitz

I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I'm a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on 'Beverly Hills 90210' for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.

Michael Crichton

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

Michael Crichton

Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

Mia Maestro

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

Melissa Leo

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

Melissa Joan Hart

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

Mark Twain

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.