Famous Quotes & Sayings

James T. Walsh

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

James Thurber

Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

James St. James

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

James Patterson

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

James Patterson

Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.

James Patterson

Iggy’s spine tightened, his face like ice. When he’d been at the School, they’d tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.

James Patterson

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

James Maslow

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didnt even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.

James McGreevey

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

Norton Simon

I liked money more than going to school.

Ellen Muth

First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.

Ellen G. White

All who in this world render true service to God or man receive a preparatory training in the school of sorrow. The weightier the trust and the higher the service, the closer is the test and the more severe the discipline.

Ellen DeGeneres

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

Eric Ripert

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

Eric Schlosser

There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow and prepare their own food. There's also a movement that's bringing farmers into schools and creating relationships between local farms and local cafeterias, so that instead of frozen mystery meat, you have fresh produce that's coming from the area that has a name and a face associated with it.

Eric Schlosser

There's been a growing effort to kick soda out of the schools. And governors as different as Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and Mike Huckabee in Arkansas have worked hard to get soda and junk food out of their state schools, which is good.

Eric Schlosser

During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.

Eric Schlosser

I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.

Eric Allin Cornell

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Eric Allin Cornell

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Emily Blunt

I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

Emily Giffin

I don't really know why I went to law school.

Emeli Sande

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

Emeril Lagasse

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Ellar Coltrane

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

Ella Henderson

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

Elayne Boosler

I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.

Elayne Boosler

There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

Edward Tufte

PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

Holly Black

I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.

Hermann Hesse

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless...

Hermann Hesse

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Hayley Williams

When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.