Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

J. K. Rowling

I’m not a freak. That’s a horrible thing to say." "That’s where you’re going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that’s what you two are..." "You didn’t think it was such a freak’s school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.

J. K. Rowling

If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!

J. K. Rowling

Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

J. K. Rowling

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.

J. K. Rowling

I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.

J. K. Rowling

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

J. K. Rowling

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

J. K. Rowling

However,' said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, 'you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Ivan Lendl

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

Ivan Pavlov

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

Ivan Pavlov

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Guillermo del Toro

You live and die two or three times making a movie. First, you write it, and the first pivotal moment comes when you can get it made. The second is in the process of making it, when the movie reveals itself to you, its flaws and its virtues. Then the most unnerving moment is when that movie is then launched into the world. It's like bringing your kid to the first day at school and somebody points out that it has bowlegs, it is cross-eyed, or it's gorgeous. You feel very exposed.

Grace Helbig

I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

J. Philippe Rushton

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

J. William Fulbright

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Paul Feig

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

Paul Begala

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

Mary J. Blige

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

Martha Beck

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Mark Gatiss

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

Mark Hamill

I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.

Mark Haddon

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Marion Nestle

The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

Marisa Tomei

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

Paul Samuelson

Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.

Paul Arden

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

Patrick Macnee

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

Pat Boone

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

Pat Buchanan

American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.