Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Stroumboulopoulos

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

George Stigler

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

George Tillman, Jr.

It's going back to old school, the way it was done and I'm finding out there is something different, a little interesting. There is something just a little fresh about it because I haven't seen it done like that in a little while. I'm embracing it, you know.

George R. R. Martin

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

Jean Cocteau

Respect movements, flee schools.

George Carlin

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

George Carlin

When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

George Carlin

[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.

George Carlin

The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

Gene Weingarten

I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Garth Brooks

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

Frank Gehry

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

Frank Gehry

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

Felix Frankfurter

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

Feist

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

Ezra Miller

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

Ezra Miller

New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.

Ezra Miller

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

Ezra Miller

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Ezra Taft Benson

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Eugenie Scott

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

Eugenie Scott

In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

Eugene Mirman

The only thing wrong with me was that I was a weirdo that hated school. I'm sure now there'd be a disorder for it, but I was just an oddball.

Francis Collins

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

Francis Atterbury

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Jennifer Carpenter

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.