Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Helmond

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

Katherine Jenkins

I was such a geek in school.

Katherine Jenkins

I remember performing with the Choir as an instrumentalist when I was still in school and it was wonderful to share the stage with them again more recently in Rhyl and at the opening of the Wales vs New Zealand rugby international at the Millennium Stadium. Here's wishing everyone involved in the Choir every success - I can't wait to perform with you again.

Katherine Paterson

. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.

Julia Ward Howe

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Julia Stiles

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

Julia Stiles

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!

Julian Casablancas

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

Ken Ham

One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.

Katie Price

When I was 15, all the boys at school had off-road motorbikes. I wasn't allowed to have one, so I just went out and bought one. My parents took the keys.

Krista Tippett

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

Kristen Bell

High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at the time where everybody is waking up with different opinions every day, and you're on this learning curve of who you are and who you want to be, and you're comparing yourself with every other male and female around you. There's no sense to it.

Kristen Bell

If you're in high school, just know there is a big world out there and you can be anyone you want to be.

Kristen Bell

Everybody just wants to be loved, and nobody feels loved enough in high school.

Kristen Bell

I had a lot of insecure moments in high school. It wasn't all peachy keen. But, I don't necessarily think that I hated high school and wanted to crawl into a hole either.

Kristen Bell

I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?

Kristen Bell

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

Kirsten Vangsness

I dress like a 7-year-old space pilot. I have clothes that I still wear regularly from high school.

Kim Harrison

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.

Kim Harrison

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.

Kevin Nealon

I went to school for marketing and advertising, so I have a special interest in good and funny commercials and why they work and why they're funny - which is one of the reasons I, like many people, like watching the Super Bowl, besides the game.

Kevin Nealon

I never really got into marketing. I went to school for it, but never pursued it once I got out. Instead, I went to Europe for about two months, just traveling around in youth hostels and Eurail trains with my friends.

Kevin Nealon

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper

Kevin O'Leary

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

Kerry King

I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house.

Kenan Thompson

I was a good student in school.

Ice T

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

Ice Cube

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.

Ivan Illich

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.

Ivan Illich

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

Ivan Illich

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Ivan Illich

Schools teach the need to be taught.