Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Eggers

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

David Levithan

aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

David Levithan

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

David Levithan

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

David Geffen

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

David Boaz

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

David Boaz

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

David Berkowitz

Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.

David Boreanaz

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

David Bolinsky

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

David Bowie

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

David Bowie

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

There is no school in northeastern New York that is accredited.

Johnny Damon

We thought there was going to be a clear-cut winner and a clear-cut loser. This tiebreaking stuff - you got to go so school for it.

Harrison Ford

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

Emily Browning

The thing is, I actually feel a lot more comfortable at school just bumming around with my friends than I do at Hollywood parties. But then, I guess you're just never happy with what you have.

Erin Gruwell

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

John Madden

Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that's when they really start playing.

Ram Dass

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

Kurt Vonnegut

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

Kurt Vonnegut

I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.

Kurt Vonnegut

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

Kurt Vonnegut

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

Kurt Vonnegut

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

Kurt Vonnegut

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Kurt Vonnegut

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Terry Pratchett

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Tom Wilson

We want to get them all into school.

Ernest Gaines

And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

Ernest Cline

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

Carolyn Kizer

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Carmelo Anthony

As a kid I couldn't afford any Jordans, so I didn't get my first pair until my last year of high school. They were Air Jordan 9s.

Carmelo Anthony

Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.