Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bailey

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

Dave Bautista

I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.

Dave Attell

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

David Soul

At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.

David Spade

Horrible date all through high school and college. Here's an impression of me on a date in high school. Come on, chug it!

David Spade

My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

David Spade

I never dated much in high school or college.

David Lynch

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.

Curtis Armstrong

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

Curtis Armstrong

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

Curtis Hanson

I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. So I stopped doing that and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money.

Curtis Hanson

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Curtis Jackson

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

Daniel Tosh

High school is just like glee, a bunch of people dying of drug overdose.

Dana Spiotta

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

Dane Cook

I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

Dane Cook

I was very good at kickball ... I was wonderful at ah doing that kick and your leg goes up and your shoe went on top of the school

Dane Cook

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

Daley Thompson

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

Daley Thompson

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Curtis Sittenfeld

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

Cyndi Lauper

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Craig Charles

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.

David Cassidy

I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices.

David Cassidy

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

David Cameron

It does make a broader point which is the fight against Islamist terror is not just one that we can wage by the police and border control, it needs every school, every university, every college, every community to recognize they have a role to play, we all have a role to play in stopping people from having their minds poisoned by this appalling death cult.

David Cameron

I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.

David Byrne

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

Darren Hayes

I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

Dave Matthews

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

Dave Eggers

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

Dave Eggers

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

Dave Eggers

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.