Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Scott Westerfeld

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

Stevie Wonder

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

Steven Morrissey

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.

Steven Pinker

In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

Susan Mann

An ongoing challenge for Australia is ensuring equity of access to technology. Since the decline in federal funding, many schools are reverting to bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs and this puts the onus back on families to fund devices.

Susan Mann

More ubiquitous mobile technologies have led to a significant shift from desktops and laptops to the use of mobile tablets. Australian schools are increasingly using apps as they become available to support education.

Susan Lucci

It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take.

Susan Hill

I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre.

Sue Grafton

Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

Sue Monk Kidd

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

Sue Monk Kidd

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

Strom Thurmond

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement,

Steven Yeun

Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I graduated with a degree in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. Really, the plan was for me to go to med school.

Steven Tyler

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

Stevie Nicks

I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.

Robbie Lawler

I met Pat Militich when I was a junior in high school when I was 16 and just started training and went from there. I went to the same high school that Pat had attended and he would bring some of his fighters out to wrestling practice to work out and I got to know him that way. I immediately like it.

Robbie Lawler

I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.

Ricky Schroder

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.