Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.

Mo Rocca

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

Mimi Rogers

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

Mink Stole

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

Mindy Kaling

There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.

Mindy Kaling

The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.

Mindy Kaling

I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. I didn't have a ton of academic skills. It wasn't until I was in high school that I was like, "I guess I like writing dialogue." So that's how I got into it.

Mindy Kaling

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Mindy Kaling

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

Mindy Kaling

I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off.

Mike Rowe

It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.

Mickey Rooney

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

Mika

I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of a tree into school. No one was pleased. I got two weeks detention because I was 45 minutes late and had made a big mess of leaves and soil all over the building. All the kids just laughed at me.

Kirk Gibson

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

Kirsten Dunst

I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.

Kim Basinger

You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

Kim Basinger

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

Kevin Eubanks

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Kevin Costner

I will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.

Kenny Baker

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

Kathleen Hanna

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

Karl Lehmann

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

Kamala Harris

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

Judith Ellen Foster

It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.

Josh Brolin

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Kristin Kreuk

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

Kristin Scott Thomas

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I was terrible at school.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

Murray Rothbard

The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.

Myles Munroe

Marriage is a school of learning.

Molly Ivins

Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.

Milo Ventimiglia

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.