Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Gardner

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

Howard Gardner

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

Hank Azaria

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

Hank Azaria

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

Guy Berryman

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

He's angry. He's always angry. He doesn't want to go to school. That's not my son. That's not how he is.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

Friedrich Nietzsche

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

George Bernard Shaw

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

George Bernard Shaw

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

George Bernard Shaw

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Gelila Bekele

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Gemma Arterton

I was quite naughty at school.

Gena Showalter

Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.

Gary McCord

My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

Gary Larson

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

Gale Sayers

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

Freema Agyeman

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

Freeman Dyson

I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.

Fred Durst

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

Franz Kafka

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Erich Fromm

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

Joshua Malina

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

Now is the time for the schools to have the input, to tell us what's unique about their situation.

Mary Quant

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

Michael Jones

So she's got that anti-art school thing going on.

Amy Lee

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years-in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

Terry Pratchett

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Tom Wilson

We want to get them all into school.