Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enrico Colantoni

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

Eoin Colfer

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Gary Paulsen

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Gary Oldman

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

Gabriel Iglesias

I was not the popular kid in school.

Gabriel Iglesias

With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?

Frank Iero

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

Frank Shorter

How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

George J. Mitchell

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

Chris Hedges

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.

Chris Hardwick

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

Chris Hardwick

When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.

Christopher Columbus

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Christie Hefner

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

Christa B. Allen

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

Christa McAuliffe

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

Chrissie Hynde

I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.

Chrissy Teigen

[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools.

Chris Zylka

I was fortunate enough to never really be bullied. Maybe one time in middle school, but it was my fault. I had said something to someone, and they waited for me outside for a month until finally I put my dukes up and ran out. It was completely my fault.

Chris Vance

I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

Chris Paul

I've always been vertically challenged. I never grew at all until my junior year of high school-if you call that growing.

Chris Kirkpatrick

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

Chris Isaak

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.

Chris Hayes

None of us were prepared to hear what Justice Scalia said, because in essence what he was saying is let`s go back to pre-Board of Education - Brown versus Board of Education, 1950s America where blacks are doing all right going to black schools or schools where blacks go. He said go to less advanced schools where they do all right. We`re going back to separate but equal.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

George W. Bush

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

George W. Bush

Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state.

George W. Bush

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

George W. Bush

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.