Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sarandon

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Susan Orlean

I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

Susan Dey

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

Susan Choi

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.

Susan Cain

Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.

Susan Cain

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

Suraj Sharma

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

Stockwell Day

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

Stone Gossard

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

Sonja Sohn

I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

Sonja Sohn

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

Steve Jobs

When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in.... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.

Steve Jobs

School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.

Steve Jobs

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

Steve Coogan

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny.

Steve Coogan

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

Steve Coogan

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

Steve Coogan

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Stephen Sprouse

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Stephen Sondheim

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

Ringo Starr

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

Rick Astley

Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

Tim Meadows

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

Tig Notaro

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

Tig Notaro

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

Tila Tequila

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

Tila Tequila

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

Tila Tequila

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

Steven Wright

My school colors were clear. We used to say, 'I'm not naked, I'm in the band.

Steven Wright

George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don't even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

Steven Soderbergh

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

Steven Spielberg

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.