Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Grohl

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

David Wright

People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

David Oyelowo

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

Dav Pilkey

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

Darius Rucker

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

Darius Rucker

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Danny Bonaduce

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Daniel Alarcon

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

Danica Patrick

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

Danica McKellar

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

Dakota Fanning

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

Condola Rashad

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

Condoleezza Rice

When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these kids who were just unbelievable. And I understand that you can be very, very good, but there's something that separates very, very good from great, and I knew that I wasn't great.

Clarence Thomas

[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior.... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

Colin Hanks

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Colin Hanks

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

Colin Hanks

I did plays in grade school.

Danny Trejo

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

Dan Rosensweig

Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

Dan Savage

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

Dan Savage

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Dan Savage

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Dan Savage

The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

Dan Savage

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

Dan Rather

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

Dan Gable

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Dan Fogelberg

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

Daphne Zuniga

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Daphne Oz

I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.

Daphne Oz

Having been to culinary school, the single greatest asset I learned there was how to cut and chop properly. It's an investment of money that will save you hours of time down the road, and hopefully some cut fingers.

Daniela Bobadilla

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

Daniela Bobadilla

I taught high school students Spanish.

Daniela Hantuchova

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.