School Quotes

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

Commerce is the school of cheating.

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

I learned nothing while I was in school.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

Hurdling is like Kung-fu. Everyone comes from a different school. And everybody says 'my Kung-fu is better than your Kung-fu.' You have to find the technique that best fits your body size.

I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical ability - ie, projecting your voice and stage craft.

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.

Ive never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.

I wasn't the most popular kid in school.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end.