Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.

P. Chidambaram

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

P. Chidambaram

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

P. D. James

I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.

P. J. O'Rourke

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

Ozzy Osbourne

I hated school. Hated it.

Paul Nurse

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

Paul Nurse

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Paul Nurse

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

Paul Feig

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

Paul Begala

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

Masaharu Morimoto

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

Mary J. Blige

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

Martha Beck

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Marshall McLuhan

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

Mark Gatiss

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

Mark Hamill

I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.

Mark Haddon

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Marion Nestle

The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

Marisa Tomei

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

Paul Samuelson

Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.

Michel de Montaigne

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Michel de Montaigne

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Michael Sandel

Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially.

Michael Rady

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

Michael Rosenbaum

I was pretty much a homebody; didn`t really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

Michael N. Castle

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

Michael N. Castle

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Mark Twain

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Mark Twain

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.