Famous Quotes & Sayings

I had a reputation in high school for making trouble.

I really thought this was going to be it. We thought we weren't going to school (today).

Cassie Steele

I'll probably never go to prom. I haven't ever been to a high school dance.

O. J. Simpson

I know it will be a lot of work with school and practices, but I think I'm ready.

Claire Tomalin

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

But he really wanted to come to school and get a degree.

This is a big thing for our team, school and our state.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no scientists picketing outside of churches.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was never seduced by it. That allowed me to view it through a more purely scientific lens. My interest in space while in school came about through my scientific activities.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good at science in school. Science is around you. Once you know and embrace that fact, it might stimulate curiosity within you to learn more about the natural world.

Neil Gaiman

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Neil Gaiman

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

Neil Gaiman

I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.

John Newcombe

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

John Newton

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

John Muir

Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.

John Waters

I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.

John Waters

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

John Waters

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

John Waters

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

John Waters

Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.

John Waters

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

John Waters

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

John W. Gardner

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

John Terry

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

John Robinson

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

John Robert Seeley

History is the school of statesmanship.

John Scalzi

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.