Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Bana

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

Eric Bana

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

Eric Bana

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

Emo Philips

Back in high school, my buddies tried to put the make on anything that moved. I told them, Why limit yourselves?

Emo Philips

When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.

Emmy Rossum

I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.

Emmy Rossum

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

James Frecheville

I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

James Franco

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

James Franco

For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.

James Franco

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

James Franco

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

James Franco

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

James Franco

Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations.

James Black

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

Jake Epstein

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

Jake Epstein

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

Friedrich Schiller

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue

Frederick Reines

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

George Gilder

Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

George Gilder

Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.

George Foreman

I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.

Jon Porter

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

Joichi Ito

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

Joichi Ito

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

Joichi Ito

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

Jon Bon Jovi

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

Johnny Carson

I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

Luc Montagnier

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Louis Leterrier

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

Loni Anderson

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

John Collison

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.