Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Glodell

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

Eugene Levy

I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.

Itay Talgam

If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.

Israel Broussard

Back when I was in elementary school, I didnt have many friends.

Irving Stone

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

Ione Skye

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

Ingrid Newkirk

Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

Illeana Douglas

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

Jack Miller

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Jack McDevitt

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

Jack Nicklaus

They [my sons] all went to different schools and all did different things. They're about as different for five kids as you'll ever see. They don't do anything the same.

Jack Nicholson

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

Jack Nicholson

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Jack Irons

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

Jack Johnson

We get to go out into the schools and work with the kids on connecting them to their food at a young age, to actually see where their food is coming from, to see that their food is coming from the earth and not just from a supermarket. Once they make that connection, they can start to build upon that.

Jack Abbott

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

J. C. Watts

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

J. B. Priestley

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

J. B. Smoove

I was the hallway clown in high school.

J. C. Ryle

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

Indra Nooyi

When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

Hopefully, being out of school will stop the transmission.

Claire Tomalin

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

But he really wanted to come to school and get a degree.

Harry Belafonte

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

Harrison Ford

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

Guy Kawasaki

I have four kids in a private school who have not yet entered college. Their tuition is what keeps me motivated. Life is simple sometimes.

Greg Grunberg

I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasnt getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.

Greg Graffin

Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.

Greg Giraldo

We need more money for schools. We need more money for the kids. Ever think maybe the damn kids aren't worth it?

Greg Gutfeld

The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

Graeme Smith

When I was asked to write a message for your brochure I gladly accepted as I remember my first school tour of England was Wales. The experience proved extremely useful in my development of a cricketer.