Schoolboy Quotes - Page 1

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
William Whitehead /
Schoolboy
Tale
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I was an annoying schoolboy, always getting into scraps.
Gwilym Lee /
Annoying
Getting
Schoolboy
Scraps
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At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
Hussein Of Jordan /
Seventeen
Schoolboy
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As a schoolboy I can recall playing three games a week and not even feeling it.
James Haskell /
Recall
Schoolboy
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As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
Simon Schama / Art Historian
Defined
Rarefied
Schoolboy
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You will probably be hearing more about this schoolboy. His name is Wilt Chamberlain.
Ted Cassidy /
Chamberlain
Schoolboy
Wilt
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Gore Vidal / Writer
Abraham
Biography
Lincoln
Schoolboy
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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
Tom Stoppard / Playwright
Facts
Very Happy
Schoolboy
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan / Philosopher
Education
Life
Familiar
Math
Simplest
Teaching
Now
His
Sacrificed
Schoolboy
Truths
Which
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
Imtiaz Ali / Film Director
Love Movies Like
Dreaming
Making Movies
Till
Schoolboy
To Love
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When I first signed schoolboy forms for United, as a midfield player, I felt for a while that I was just treading water.
Mark Hughes /
Treading
Midfield
Schoolboy
Signed
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I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
Natasha Little /
Humour
Silly
Sophisticated
Schoolboy
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I saw Angus Young running around in a schoolboy uniform shredding on the guitar and just thought, 'That looks like a cool job.'
Tom Walker /
Schoolboy
Uniform
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Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
Alan Furst / Author
Conviction
Fast Paced
Consequences
Finish
Honourable
Regarding
Schoolboy
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
Damian Lewis / Actor
Degrees
School
Successful
Degree
Required
Schoolboy
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Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
Ernie Harwell / Sportscaster
Dad
Baseball
Mississippi
President
Catch
Farm
Schoolboy
Tossing
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Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
Seamus Heaney / Poet
Indeed
Recognized
Schoolboy
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There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
Anthony Horowitz / Novelist
Holmes
Strange
Schoolboy
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
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My father and I share a passion for how things work, which in my case took the form of schoolboy fascination with machines and mechanical contraptions.
David Linley /
Fascination
Machines
Case
Mechanical
Schoolboy
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As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to David Copperfield as a role model.
Ruskin Bond / Author
Dickens
Influence
David
Loved
Charles
Model
Looked
Role
Role Model
Schoolboy
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I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist /
Afternoon
Exhibitions
Figures
Switzerland
Schoolboy
Thin
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
James Stockdale /
Helpless
Mean Girls
Paper
Papers
Throwback
Yeah
Schoolboy
Seemed
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I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
Rufus Sewell / Actor
Depended
Forced
Schoolboy
Shakespeare
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For the two hours I climb on stage, I become the schoolboy. But as soon as it is over, I get off stage and go home and get told to wipe my feet before I come in.
Angus Young / Guitarist
Wipe
Climb
Go Home
Schoolboy
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace Thackeray / Novelist
Kindness
Bless
Giving
Kind
Bestowed
Recalled
Recipient
Schoolboy
Tip
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My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Decided
Feelings
Holiday
Sight
Ring
Bull
Enter
Holidays
Perhaps
Schoolboy
Seriously
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One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
Will Mcdonough / Sportswriter
Jobs
Sports
Boston
Department
Editor
Graduate
Schoolboy
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I played football at school - but it was something you had to do up in Lanarkshire. But my first love was always motorcycles, and at the age of 11 I went into the Scottish schoolboy motocross trials.
Colin Mcrae / Race Car Driver
First Love
Scottish
Trials
Motorcycles
Schoolboy
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I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.
Vinnie Jones / Actor
Home
Divorced
Football
Second Chance
Forms
Rebelled
Schoolboy
Signed
Sorted
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I hate bad reviews, so yeah, every now and then I think, 'Boy I hope everybody really likes this and thinks this theme is good.' You can't help but do that. I think we all are, or at least I am, reduced to a schoolboy seeking approval.
James Newton Howard / Film Score Composer
Approval
Likes
Now And Then
Reviews
Seeking
Theme
Yeah
Boy
Least
Reduced
Schoolboy
Thinks
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I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.
James D. Watson / Molecular Biologist
Bird
Chicago
Rain
Snow
Charles
Darwin
Indoors
Schoolboy
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I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
Stephen Daldry / Director
War
Country
Germany
Little Time
Post War
German
Work Time History
Schoolboy
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I'm a white middle-class public schoolboy so I'm not particularly tough. But it turns out I don't mind going in the cage. I can dig in. And it's interesting watching people spar and train. There's no anger. It's all technique and delivered with venom.
James Haskell /
Anger
Interesting
Technique
Tough
Turns
Venom
Cage
Delivered
Dig
Particularly
Schoolboy
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Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on schoolboy biology in the 1930s. Most striking of all is the sudden eruption of molecular biology starting in the 1950s.
John Tyler Bonner /
Biochemistry
Developmental
Eruption
Evolution
Extraordinary
Hundred
Progress
Starting
Since
Cell
Hundred Years
Last
Molecular
Schoolboy
Striking
Sudden
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I wrote a song that basically turned into a public service announcement for the fellas out there, like, 'Should you run into this type of woman, run for your life!' So the name of the song is 'Run,' featuring the rapper ScHoolboy Q. It's one of the standouts on the album, in my personal opinion.
Ne-Yo / Singer-Songwriter
Opinion
Public Service
Rapper
Song
Type
Album
Announcement
Basically
Run
Woman
Public
Personal
Schoolboy
Service
Turned
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As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.
William T. Vollmann / Novelist
Decline
Disappointed
Expectations
Inevitable
Inward
Negative
Passive
Petty
Resentment
Doubtless
Event
Impulses
Mention
Schoolboy
Tragedies
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When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.
Derek Walcott / Poet
British
College
Dickens
England
Heritage
Inheritance
Literature
Taught
Apart
Citizen
Read
Empire
Schoolboy
Scott
Shakespeare
Synonymous
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India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats.
Amitava Kumar / Writer
Barefoot
Luxury
Passengers
Rats
Royalty
Selling
Sitting
Small Fish
Tea
Transport
Village
Living
Boy
Considered
Caste
Fish
Untouchable
Small
Inequalities
Million
Schoolboy
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Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.
John Montgomery Ward /
Baseball
Drank
Single
Life Business I Am
Life Business Game
Ate
Begins
Expectation
Sport
Learned
Schoolboy
Though
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Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.
Chris Coleman / Football Manager
Football Player
Sacrifice
Technically
Professional Football
Schoolboy
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