Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Trillin

Everybody is who he was in high school.

Calvin Trillin

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

Billy Kennedy

The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.

Billy Kennedy

The college recruiting process shouldn't be about how many schools have interest in you or how many offers you get, it should be about you finding the right school.

Ludwig von Mises

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

Ludwig von Mises

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

Ludwig von Mises

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

Ludwig von Mises

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

Oscar Isaac

All of my high school issues are resolved!

We just didn't want to have an inner-city school-type situation.

Reed Hastings

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

Rene Russo

I didn't know who Avedon was. I was 18 years old. I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade. I had no idea.

Olivia Wilde

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

We have the day off from school and work. We just wanted to see the president. We're supporters.

We wanted to participate in Youth Day of Caring, and we wanted something the whole school could participate in.

Robert Kiyosaki

Schools teach you how to work for money, but don't teach how to make money work for you

Robert Kiyosaki

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

William Shakespeare

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.

Priscilla Chan

We live in Palo Alto, which has, fortunately, one of the greatest school districts in the country.

We're a low-income school district. We need that money.

Liam Hemsworth

Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could.

Melanie Mayron

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

Bertrand Russell

... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.

Joan Allen

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

Jo Brand

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

Jimmy Carter

When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.

Jimmy Carter

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

John C. Reilly

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

John C. Reilly

I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.

John C. Reilly

I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

John Cage

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

John C. Maxwell

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life