Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Byrne

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

Darren Hayes

I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

Dave Matthews

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

Dave Eggers

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

Dave Eggers

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

Dave Eggers

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

Dave Eggers

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

David Levithan

aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

David Levithan

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

David Levithan

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

David Geffen

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

David Boaz

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

David Boaz

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

David Berkowitz

Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.

David Boreanaz

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

David Bolinsky

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

David Bowie

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

David Bowie

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

Delia Smith

I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.

Debbie Gibson

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.

Debbie Macomber

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

Dean Norris

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.

Deborah Bull

A good dancer is an educated one, so dont abandon school.

Amartya Sen

The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.

Amartya Sen

When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.

Amber Heard

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

Amber Heard

I always felt like an outcast at school. I had good friends, but none that I truly related to.

Amber Heard

I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there.

Anthony Mackie

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

Anna Paquin

I was honestly never a huge school person.

Anna Quindlen

Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.

Anna Quindlen

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.