Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.

John Newcombe

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

John Newton

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

John Muir

Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.

John Waters

I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.

John Waters

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

John Waters

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

John Waters

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

John Waters

Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.

John Waters

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

John Waters

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

John W. Gardner

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

John Terry

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

John Robinson

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

John Robert Seeley

History is the school of statesmanship.

Shawne Merriman

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

Sheena Easton

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

Shay Mitchell

I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!

Shay Mitchell

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

Terry Pratchett

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Nigella Lawson

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

Nikita Khrushchev

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Nicolas Cage

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character.

Nick Frost

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

Nick Frost

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

Nick Frost

I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy.

Nile Rodgers

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Nigel Rees

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

Nigel Farage

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

Nigel Farage

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

Nasim Pedrad

I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

Nat King Cole

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.