Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Filler

During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.

Mark Feuerstein

In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

Mark Foley

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

Mark Foley

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Mario Testino

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Martin Mayer

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

Noam Chomsky

There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

Nikki Sanderson

I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths, so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn't have a clue.

Nikki Reed

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

Nicole Polizzi

As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

Nicky Whelan

Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

Nicky Hilton

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.

Nico Tortorella

I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.

Nicki Minaj

Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane

Nick Mancuso

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

Nick Park

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

Nick Offerman

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

Nick Offerman

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

Matt Gonzalez

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

Matt Gonzalez

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

Matt Dillon

I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that don't know anything about the process. And I think they're afraid sometimes to talk to actors and be honest with actors.

Matt Damon

Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair.

Mary Lou Retton

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

Mary Lou Retton

I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

Mark Twain

The problem with education is school.

Mark Twain

School gets in the way of my learning.

Mark Twain

It is better to support schools than jails.

Mark Twain

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

Nicholas Sparks

It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say.

Nicholas Sparks

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

John Green

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

John Green

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

John Green

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.