Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

Janet Napolitano

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Michael Ironside

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Albert Finney

You're exactly as big as I let you be.

Thomas Friedman

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

Ron White

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

Shirley MacLaine

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

Soleil Moon Frye

Catsuits were big for me in the '90s, and I had many of them. Even catsuits with shorts in them.

Jason Kilar

Theres nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.

Ashley Tisdale

Producing is just a big learning experience.

Roald Dahl

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.