Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cosby

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

C. S. Lewis

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

C. S. Lewis

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

C. S. Lewis

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

C. S. Lewis

What do they teach them at these schools?

Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Carrie Preston

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

Carrie Brownstein

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

Carrie Underwood

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

Carrie Underwood

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

Bill Burr

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

Bill Bryson

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968] . The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

Bernadette Devlin

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

Benjamin Rush

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

Art Alexakis

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Anton Corbijn

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

Bill Vaughan

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

Bill Vaughan

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

Bill Buford

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

Bill Burr

I wish they would teach it in schools: Give people the belief that they are going to do well. A lot of people are really talented and scared to follow their talent because you don't know where it's going.

Charles Haynes

I think the school is very smart to put this in the handbook,

Rhys Ifans

Spider-Man is a school boy that's looking for his parents.

My wife and I talked it over. She's going to school and will be a teacher, and I'm going to go into real estate.

Kylie Jenner

I'm still in school - I'm home-schooled. I do school every day. I finish in, like, four months.

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mike Lowry

I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

Jonah Lomu

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Joe Cornish

I went to Bournemouth Film School for 3 years.

Gia Coppola

I went to a private all-girls school where I didn't feel I fit in.

Tom Stoppard

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

Grant Achatz

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

Joanna Newsom

I went to school to become a composer.

Tyra Banks

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.