Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dylan O'Brien

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

Douglas Bader

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

Douglas Booth

I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.

Douglas Booth

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

Douglas Booth

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.

Doug Stanhope

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

Donna Reed

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

Donnie Wahlberg

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

Donald Freed

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

Donald Glover

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

Don Was

I did drop out of school.

Donal Henahan

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.

Don Tapscott

Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

Don Young

I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.

Donal Logue

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

Cristin Milioti

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

Cristin Milioti

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

Cristin Milioti

I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.

Craig Thompson

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Corbin Bleu

Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

Claire McCaskill

Some of the morays have held on. When I was in school, I remember asking the question, "Why is it that whenever I walk into a fraternity there's alcohol everywhere and there's no alcohol in a sorority? Why is it that sororities won't allow alcohol, but fraternities do? What is that?" You know, nobody had a really good answer, and that's kind of held on. It's one of the issues that's being examined now - the role of alcohol in sexual assault.

Daniel Quinn

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

Daniel Quinn

Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

Daniel Radcliffe

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

Daniel Radcliffe

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent,

Daniel Radcliffe

I wasn't the most popular kid in school.

Daniel Clowes

There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in The Death-Ray is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Daniel Clowes

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Damian Marley

I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

Damon Albarn

Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

Damian Lewis

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Damien Hirst

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.