Famous Quotes & Sayings

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be able to go to the school I go to or do the things that I do now,

Carl Jung

Oh, so you see some chick in baggy jeans and a hoodie, and you just have to have her so bad, you decide to repeat high school, just to get her?" "Sounds about right." He laughs.

I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

Kristen Connolly

I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'

Kevin Smith

He was one of the top guards, not only for us but for the school district.

I agree. I think that's something that should be added. Every school is different.

He was able to go into the school and feel very comfortable. But they didn't feel very comfortable with him.

If we find we're one school short, that would be a problem.

I always got in trouble in school for writing stories,

He enrolled in school as a contingency plan.

He doesn't want to take me anymore. I schooled him a little bit.

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.

Ajay Naidu

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

Charles Kimbrough

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

Charles Kettering

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

Charles Kingsley

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

Charles Churchill

A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

Charles Darwin

Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

Charlene Tilton

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

Charlene Tilton

I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.

Charles Barron

Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.

Channing Tatum

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

Channing Tatum

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

Alanis Morissette

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

Blake Lively

I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe.

Billie Joe Armstrong

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Bill Hader

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

Kerri Strug

I never went to my high school dance, and didn't date much.

David Walliams

When I was at school I was watching The Young Ones,

Ludwig von Mises

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Chris Cuomo

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"