Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Oliver

It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

James Woods

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

James Wolcott

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

Jason Biggs

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school

Jason Biggs

In high school, I got picked on. It's funny that I got tormented for what I'm doing now - the acting thing. People would see me in a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day at school. Kids would say, 'Hi, TV Boy.' They heckled. I never got beat up.

Jason Alexander

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

Jared Bernstein

Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.

Janina Gavankar

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

Janet Napolitano

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Janet Napolitano

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

There is a school out there for everybody. You just have to find it.

Ann Davis

Basically, we just want them to get in school and get learning,

Ashton Irwin

I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

Aaron Johnson

Get with a soldier. They'll take you down to the school.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.

Hillary Clinton

I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.

I don't have an inferiority complex. I just want to see my school improve, and I don't see why it can't.

Kevin McCarthy

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

Cameron Monaghan

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

Cam Gigandet

I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

Cameron Sinclair

Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support a purpose-driven school of architecture than to invite a high profile designer to build.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Miley Cyrus

It was hard to leave my school. I've been going to the same school since kindergarden.

Busta Rhymes

It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come

Busy Philipps

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

Cesar Chavez

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

Catherine Jinks

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

Catherine Opie

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

Carl Zimmer

The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.

Carl Zimmer

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Al Yankovic

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

Al Franken

Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.