Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Hawking

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

Stephan Jenkins

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

Stanley Clarke

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

Stanislav Grof

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Spencer Grammer

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

Spike Lee

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

Simon Cowell

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

Sigrid Undset

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

Sigrid Undset

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom

Sigourney Weaver

I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'

Shirley Manson

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

Shepard Smith

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Shailene Woodley

People always ask about the transition from TV show to a movie, but it felt like just going to a different school. You don't really notice the transition, when you're in the moment.

Shailene Woodley

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

Shailene Woodley

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.

Scotty McCreery

For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.

Scott Turow

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

Rick Riordan

This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals

Rick Riordan

I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.

Rick Riordan

I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

Rick Riordan

The last thing I wanted to do was blow up another school.

Richard Branson

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.

Rem Koolhaas

Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on.

Rem Koolhaas

I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines.

Richard Branson

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Richard Branson

I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.

Tinie Tempah

Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."

Tinie Tempah

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

Timothy Omundson

I did all the musicals in high school, and I loved it. And then I got to theater school at college, and was like, "No, I'm a serious actor. I want to do Shakespeare. I want to do classical theater." I took myself very seriously.

Timothy Simons

I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

Tim Heidecker

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

Tim Heidecker

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.