Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Ward

There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

Francois Hollande

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

Frank Lampard

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

Maggie Smith

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.

Odette Annable

When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

Norman Lamm

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

Oscar de la Renta

You know I started an orphanage so totally by accident. A lady came to me and asked me if I would, I will help her and we start it with little school and then I fell in love with it.

Ornette Coleman

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

Oriana Fallaci

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

Orhan Pamuk

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

Olusegun Obasanjo

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

Olivia Colman

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

Oliver Stone

I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into anti-Communism. This is a much more interesting view of history than I've ever seen, and I hope to God it works. It's classic history, classically told. No talking heads. Just pure archival footage and a storyline.

Oliver Sacks

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Octavia Spencer

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.

Nouriel Roubini

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

Norton Simon

I liked money more than going to school.

Ellen Muth

First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.

Ellen G. White

All who in this world render true service to God or man receive a preparatory training in the school of sorrow. The weightier the trust and the higher the service, the closer is the test and the more severe the discipline.

Ellen DeGeneres

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

Eric Ripert

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

Eric Schlosser

There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow and prepare their own food. There's also a movement that's bringing farmers into schools and creating relationships between local farms and local cafeterias, so that instead of frozen mystery meat, you have fresh produce that's coming from the area that has a name and a face associated with it.

Eric Schlosser

There's been a growing effort to kick soda out of the schools. And governors as different as Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and Mike Huckabee in Arkansas have worked hard to get soda and junk food out of their state schools, which is good.

Eric Schlosser

During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.

Eric Schlosser

I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.

Eric Allin Cornell

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Eric Allin Cornell

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Emily Blunt

I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

Emily Giffin

I don't really know why I went to law school.

Emeli Sande

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

Emeril Lagasse

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.