Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Odette Annable

When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

Norman Lamm

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

Oscar de la Renta

You know I started an orphanage so totally by accident. A lady came to me and asked me if I would, I will help her and we start it with little school and then I fell in love with it.

Ornette Coleman

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

Oriana Fallaci

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

Orhan Pamuk

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

Olusegun Obasanjo

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

Olivia Colman

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

Oliver Stone

I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into anti-Communism. This is a much more interesting view of history than I've ever seen, and I hope to God it works. It's classic history, classically told. No talking heads. Just pure archival footage and a storyline.

Oliver Sacks

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Octavia Spencer

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.

Nouriel Roubini

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

Michael Cadnum

Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

Michael Caine

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does."

Mel Tillis

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

Masi Oka

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Mary Leakey

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe

Michael Moore

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Michael Giacchino

For me, I always go back to when I was 10 years old and, I think between the time I was 10 and going to high school, were some of the greatest moments for me, because I had a group of friends that I was inseparable with, who we would make movies with all the time.

Michael Gambon

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

Michael Gove

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

Michael Gove

A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.

Michael Gove

Many more schools can be outstanding.

Michael Gove

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

Michael Grant

Quinn sat back down. He leaned forward, elbows on knees. "Man, don't you remember taking tests in school? Multiple choice: A, B, C, D, or E, all of the above. "Yeah?" "Dude, sometimes the answer is 'all of the above.' This places needs you. And it needs Astrid. And it needs Sam. It's all of the above, Albert.

Michael Grant

Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?" Caine shook his head. "No, I have not." "Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have.

Michael Chabon

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

Michael Arndt

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.