Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephanie Seymour

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

Stefan Banach

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.

Stark Sands

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

Sophia Bush

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

Sophia Bush

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.

Taylor Schilling

I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'

Taylor Swift

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

Taylor Swift

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.

Taylor Swift

I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

Taylor Swift

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Stacie Orrico

Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.

Stacie Orrico

I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.

Stacy Keibler

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

Stephen Vincent Benet

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

Stephenie Meyer

She looked around herself, disoriented, like she’d forgotten we were at lunch. Like she’d forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone in some private place. I understood that feeling exactly. It was hard to remember the rest of the world when I was with her.

Stephen Chow

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

Stephen Colbert

I teach Sunday school, motherf*****.

Stephen Colbert

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?

Stephen Colbert

I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.

Stephen Colbert

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

Stella Maeve

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

Spencer Abraham

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Thomas Harris

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

Tim Scott

As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

Tim Walberg

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

Thomas G. Stemberg

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

Thomas Frank

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

Thomas Friedman

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Thomas Friedman

C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.

Thomas J. Sargent

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.