Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhang Ziyi

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

Zach Braff

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

Zac Posen

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

Youssou N'Dour

I have studied at the school of the world.

Ty Burrell

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

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.

William Glasser

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

William Glasser

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

William Graham Sumner

The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.... Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

William Godwin

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

Wilford Brimley

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

Warren Zevon

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

Walter Jon Williams

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

William Jackson

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

Yngwie Malmsteen

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

Winona Ryder

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.

Winston Churchill

I was, on the whole, considerably discouraged by my school days. It was not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the beginning of the race.

Winston Churchill

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

Rebecca Romijn

I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

Rick Springfield

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

Rick Springfield

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

Rick Yancey

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

Rick Warren

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

Troian Bellisario

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Trevor Dunn

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Tracie Thoms

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.

Tracy Anderson

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.

Tracy Chapman

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

Torii Hunter

I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.

Steve Winwood

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.

Vince Staples

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.