Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

Sarah Dessen

All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

Sarah Dessen

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

Sarah Dessen

I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

Sandra Lerner

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research,

Sandra Fluke

Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,

Sandra Day O'Connor

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

Sandra Day O'Connor

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

Rory Bremner

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

Rooney Mara

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends

Ronnie Wood

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

Rohinton Mistry

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Roger Ebert

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

Robin Trower

I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.

Robert Shaw

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

Robert Smith

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

Robert M. Hutchins

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Sasha Alexander

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

Sarah Sutton

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

Sarah Vowell

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

Sarah Miles

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.

Sarah Kay

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

Sarah Kay

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

Sarah Kay

Ever hear that expression, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? That's what high school was like for me. Both of those - all the time.

Sara Paxton

I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.

Sara Paxton

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

Sandy Adams

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

Sandra Bernhard

I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Johnson

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.