Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Rodriguez

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I went to court-reporting school to study stenotyping. After awhile, whenever anybody spoke, in my mind my fingers would be punching it out. Even two years after I quit, my mind still did that.

Michael Sims

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

Michael Shermer

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

Michael Scott

Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.

Michael Moore

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

Michael Moore

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

Michael Moore

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

Michael Moore

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good question. (Acheron) I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian) Nah, mine’s even better. How do you hide a chainsaw in your locker at school? I’m thinking they’re not going to stop, and while the school has a strict no-weapons policy, I don’t think the plastic sporks in the cafeteria are going to do much to combat them. I need protection, man. Serious protection. (Nick)

Theodore Roosevelt

No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible.

Theodore Hesburgh

It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.

Theodore L. Cuyler

The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

Theo James

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

The Weeknd

I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!

Thabo Mbeki

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

Terry McMillan

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

Terry Pratchett

I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.

Terry Pratchett

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

Margaret Mead

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

Marcus Brigstocke

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

Marcus Buckingham

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

Kina Grannis

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

Kin Hubbard

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

Kevin Systrom

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.

Michael Lewis

We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date.

Michael Lewis

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Michael Bloomberg

When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.

Michael Bloomberg

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Melissa McCarthy

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

Michelle Alexander

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

Michele Bachmann

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Michael Steger

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.