Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arne Jacobsen

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Arne Duncan

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

Arne Duncan

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

Arne Duncan

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

Arnold Palmer

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

Antony Sher

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

We always complain, but they (school officials) don't do anything about it.

Diablo Cody

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

Diablo Cody

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

Diablo Cody

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

Diablo Cody

I keep joking that I'm in Jason Reitman Film School, because I keep asking him questions every single day about directing and I have a list of things that he's told me to do and not do and I definitely couldn't learn from a better person.

Derek Bok

The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

Denzel Washington

The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track

Denis O'Hare

I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

William Shakespeare

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

Louis C. K.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

Louis C. K.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Kurt Vonnegut

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

I went to high school in the highlands of Scotland.

Anne Sullivan

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

Camille Paglia

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

Camille Paglia

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

Casey Stengel

Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old

Carl Lewis

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

Carl Lewis

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

Calvin Johnson

I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough.

Callan McAuliffe

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

Callan McAuliffe

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

Calvin Trillin

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?