The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

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.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.

I went to Fountain Valley High School. I remember watching Grove Shakespeare productions here. It left a big impression on me.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.

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

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

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

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

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

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.

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