Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pauley Perrette

I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me [on NCIS] because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

Pauley Perrette

I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.

Paul Taylor

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas

Mary Oliver

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

Mary Cheney

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

Mary Cheney

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

Martin Compston

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

Pope Benedict XVI

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

Pietro Metastasio

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

Pinetop Perkins

I didn’t have much school. Three years.

Philippe Perrin

Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

Philipp Meyer

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

Philippe Falardeau

If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's life afterwards. So, there's the restraint part, and there's the fact that the story is happening in the school which allowed me to tackle all these subjects without making it too didactic, because in the school everything happens.

Pope Francis

I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!

Pope Francis

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

Rachael Leigh Cook

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model

Rachel Bilson

I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

Peter Mayle

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Peter McWilliams

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Pete Seeger

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a lick or two. Little by little, I put it together.

Pete Seeger

And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same And they all come out all the same.

Peter Singer

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

Peter Higgs

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

Quincy Jones

Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Quincy Jones

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

Quincy Jones

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Quincy Jones

I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.

Quentin Tarantino

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Quentin Tarantino

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

Quentin Tarantino

I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

Quentin Tarantino

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Prince Fielder

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

Prince Philip

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?