Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tatyana Ali

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

Tayari Jones

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

Tavi Gevinson

I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.

Tavis Smiley

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Taraji P. Henson

I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.

Tony Parsons

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

Tony Abbott

I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society

Tony Abbott

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools

Thorstein Veblen

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Thucydides

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

Thucydides

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

Robert A. Heinlein

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.

Robert A. Heinlein

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

Ringo Starr

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

Rick Astley

Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

Rick Baker

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

Tim Meadows

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

Tig Notaro

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

Tig Notaro

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

Tila Tequila

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

Tila Tequila

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

Tila Tequila

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

Steven Wright

My school colors were clear. We used to say, 'I'm not naked, I'm in the band.

Steven Wright

George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don't even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

Steven Soderbergh

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

Steven Spielberg

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

Steven Spielberg

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

Steven Spielberg

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

Regina King

And once I was in college, about - maybe the end of my first semester of my sophomore year, I realized that college just was not my jam and that I felt like I was learning more when is actually on set. And I think a lot of that had to do with - I was working while I was in college. I was on "227," so I didn't get a chance to really be immersed in the culture of my school.

Reggie Jackson

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

Robert Bresson

Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

Tom Selleck

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Tom Shadyac

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.