Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ty Cobb

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

Twyla Tharp

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

Walt Disney

We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio...

Vinod Khosla

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

Viswanathan Anand

I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

Walt Whitman

Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

Walt Whitman

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

Saul Bellow

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés the first prize.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. I am so desperately worried about anybody saying, "She cut in line," or "She took our table," or "She doesn't do her own grocery shopping." It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

Sarah Dessen

Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.

Sarah Dessen

Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

Sarah Dessen

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

Sarah Dessen

All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

Sarah Dessen

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

Sarah Dessen

I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

Sandra Lerner

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research,

Sandra Fluke

Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,

Sandra Day O'Connor

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

Sandra Day O'Connor

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

Rory Bremner

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

Ronnie Wood

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

Roger Ebert

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

Robert Shaw

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

Robert Smith

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

Robert M. Hutchins

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Sasha Alexander

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

Sarah Sutton

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

Sarah Vowell

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

Sarah Miles

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.

Zac Posen

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

Youssou N'Dour

I have studied at the school of the world.