Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morgan Freeman

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

Miles Davis

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

Mila Kunis

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Mila Kunis

My parents' biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn't fathom me acting for the rest of my life.

Mila Kunis

It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend.

Mila Kunis

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

Mila Kunis

What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.

Mila Kunis

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

Micky Dolenz

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

Micky Dolenz

What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

Mara Wilson

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? So my grades weren't great, but I feel like, is there any other way that I could have gotten into NYU? I don't know. I think that it definitely worked in my favor in some ways.

Marcel Proust

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

Joseph Addison

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.

Jordyn Wieber

I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.

Jordin Sparks

'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.

Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

Jordana Brewster

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end.

Jordana Brewster

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Kellan Lutz

Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things,' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'

Kelley Armstrong

The look she gave me reminded me of when is was seven and I'd proudly informed out housekeeper that I'd donated half my clothing to a charity drive at school. It had seemed perfectly sensible to me-I didn't need so much stuff-but she'd stared at me like Margaret was now, with a mix of horror and disbelief.

Joan Allen

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

Jo Brand

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

Jimmy Carter

When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.

Jimmy Carter

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

John C. Reilly

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

John C. Reilly

I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.

John C. Reilly

I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

John Cage

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

John C. Maxwell

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

Gaby Hoffmann

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

Mahatma Gandhi

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.