Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Friedkin

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.

William Friedkin

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

Will Ferrell

I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

Will Ferrell

I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.

Sara Zarr

It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

Sara Zarr

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

Sara Canning

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Sara Canning

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

Sara Gilbert

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

Sara Blakely

Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.

Samuel Smiles

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

Samuel Smiles

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.

Richard Louv

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

Richard M. Nixon

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Rian Johnson

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

Ricardo Semler

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

Rich Lowry

We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate.

Ray Winstone

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

Robert D. Hare

Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

RJ Mitte

I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.

RJ Mitte

Most people had high school - I had Breaking Bad.

Roald Dahl

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Richard Powers

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Richard Rodriguez

But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.

Richard Rohr

The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.

Richard Land

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

Tucker Max

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

Tucker Max

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

Tullian Tchividjian

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

Tullian Tchividjian

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

Tupac Shakur

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.