“I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.” BigsLightSchoolUsedNightBitsFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTrackTexasFridayFriday NightAntonioNight LightSan AntonioFriday Night Lights Author:Norah O'Donnell
“I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.” WellsLittlesSchoolBitsTeacherGoes OnLittle BitHigh SchoolDiscouraged Author:Tyler Posey
“I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.” LittlesSchoolBitsLittle BitHigh SchoolJocks Author:Joel Silver
“I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.” PeopleKindSchoolBitsSupportStreetsExcitedLondonUnusualSupport YouToo Cool Author:David Walliams
“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.” PeopleWritingHandsSchoolBitsCan DoMistakeBrainSmartTrainingUniversityFinishedDirtyNonsenseEnginesBatsSurgeryTruckSmart PeopleAssemblingBrain SurgeryFinished School Author:Jasper Fforde
“Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.” LittlesSaidHandsSchoolGirlBitsPleasurePleaseLittle BitAreasStandingRootsCatholicLustTiesDeliciousEroticVinesCanalsCatholic SchoolElationKinkSchool Girl Book:Catholic School Girls Rule Source: Catholic School Girls Rule
“I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.” LittlesIdeasDifferentSchoolActorsBitsDramaStereotypeEdgy Author:Kaya Scodelario
“I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.” KnowsWellsSelfSchoolBitsAbilityLowsAverageSelf Confidence Author:Peter Hollingworth
“In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.” KidsSchoolBitsMiddleWallTeethDirtMiddle SchoolRecess Author:Russell Wilson
“The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.” ThinkingBelieveArtKidsSchoolYoungBitsEducationMeaninglessCrapArt School Author:Leonard Baskin
“I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.” KnowsWorldLittlesIdeasWarStoriesSchoolBitsSidesTaughtLittle BitResistanceWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IUnfamiliar Author:Bill Nighy
“I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.” ThinkingLittlesSchoolChoicesBitsActingClassSucceedLittle BitHigh SchoolMy FamilyIntelligent Author:James Gandolfini
“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.” IfsFirstsMatterDreamCareSchoolTogetherEvilStarsBitsWhitePerfectBehindsSunTroubleInfluenceFineFitMoonSpringHumorousMachinesGreenSavedAtomsGearsGloomIndustriousSpatsVatAntimatter Book:The Cyberiad Source: The Cyberiad
“I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this and that, I set up a bunch of bases down the hallway of the school and I put all of the portraits I had completed... and I waited for the reaction.... that's how I got started again, doing portraits of people around me.” PeopleWellsLittlesSchoolFunBitsHoursLittle BitBasesClubsReactionsBunchFacultyLunchPortraitsHallways Author:Joe Fafard
“My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.” WorldTwoSchoolBitsCommunityBandGirlfriendBalletMy GirlfriendSaxophoneNerdyTwo SistersMarching Band Author:Jennifer Garner
“Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.” SchoolBitsCompanyDrugHigh SchoolConcernedDrug Companies Author:John Oliver
“I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.” SchoolBitsCollegeSingingJazzLeavingFolksClubsImpressionBotherSundayFieryCertificatesBirminghamPlaying JazzBad Impression Author:Steve Winwood
“When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that's too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.” FeelsLittlesSchoolGirlBitsKissingLittle BitMouthsHigh SchoolHugKiss Me Author:Pete Wentz
“I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.” WellsLittlesI CanSchoolSpeakLanguageBitsLittle BitTinyRelatedLatinItalianAlasI Can ReadSpeaks French Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.” GivingWellsLooksStillsFeelingsSchoolBitsCommonCuttingMilitaryDressesProfessionMedicalClassicUrbanEleganceOld SchoolWatsonMedical ProfessionSilhouettesDashingOvercoatMetrosexuals Author:Martin Freeman
“I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped going to school at 15. I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit.” FeelsLittlesDifferentSchoolBitsSubjectsCollegeLittle BitIgnorantIdiotClassroomUneducatedSoakingDifferent Subjects Author:Nipsey Hussle
“I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.” IfsThinkingMadeSchoolHateBitsImagineFootballFinancialMathStuckFinanceMade ItImagine ThatLove HatePlaying FootballLove Hate RelationshipLove And Hate Relationship Author:Matteo Manassero
“They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with a female heroine because she's pretty or beautiful or has long, blonde hair. They fall in love with them because of who they are, because of their vibrancy and their intelligence and if only we were teaching that a bit more in schools.” IfsMenLongStoriesSchoolBeautifulFallBitsAliveTeachingHairFemaleFalling In LoveLove StoryFallenBlondeHeroinesAustenBlonde HairVibrancyLong Blonde Hair Author:Anna Maxwell Martin
“I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.” WorldTryingWholeSchoolYoungStuffBitsHurtClassMiddleYouthDramaDeterminedTheatreMiddle ClassUsualHurt MeSociableIt Really HurtsYouth Theatre Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.” IfsWantYearsLittlesTwoIdeasSchoolLawFunBitsCan DoFourWorstCollegeFineThousandLittle BitHundredOkayDollarsDebtWhat You WantFour YearsWorst ThingsLaw School Author:Tucker Max
“I remember I prayed to God. I was like, "Just let me be on TV." Let my friends see me on TV in a good thing. I like, if I'm funny a little bit on a commercial and then I don't need to act ever again. "Just let them see me." And then it worked. I got the commercial. I was on TV. My friends all saw me. I was a kind of a star at school for like three days. And then it faded away and I was hungry and I had to like make another deal with God. I remember it still.” IfsNeedsKindLittlesStillsSchoolRememberThreeStarsBitsDealsSawsTvsLittle BitMy FriendsLet MeGood ThingsHungryFaded Author:Jack Black
“Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.” YearsSelfSchoolPastBitsHonestSkinsMachinesPrejudiceComplexesMemoirErasIntimateBroadsShedCompellingOur PastPreciseRemindersVividExaminationBoyhoodRacial PrejudiceTime MachineSelf-examinationCultural Change Author:Dinty W. Moore
“As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.” LittlesInspirationSchoolBitsSunCrazyHugeHairLittle BitTeenagerColourBowie Author:Clive Owen
“I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.” KindKidsSchoolBitsActingGroupsInsecurityHallsCircusUneducatedEducated And UneducatedMusic Hall Author:Rupert Graves
“I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.” LittlesProblemSchoolGuyGirlBitsBlackTroubleCarAuthorityLoudGradesJacketsLeatherMotorcycleFingernailsAfter SchoolLeather Jackets Author:Melissa Marr
“I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.” ThinkingGivingLooksLittlesSchoolBitsBornViewsPerspectiveGrewLittle BitGrew UpMy FamilyInternationalIsraelBackgroundsIranGraduatesTurkeysGraduate SchoolJewish Family Author:Nouriel Roubini
“Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I’d get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘Hey Jerry, we’re going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.’” LittlesSaidStatesSchoolFacesFeltBitsBlackChanceMajorsLittle BitLettersHarderSouthUniversityCoachesGreat ThingsHeyValleysDominantFace To FaceMississippiTalk To MeJerryMississippi State Author:Jerry Rice
“All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.” KnowsChildrenSchoolMotherSocialBitsEmotionalDevelopmentAchievementTestsScoreSocial DevelopmentMother ChildTest Scores Author:Sandra Scarr
“I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?” IfsThinkingTryingLittlesArtDoneSchoolTurnsStuffBitsCareersTakenWorstLittle BitCookingShopsWorst ThingsSewingArt MusicWoodworkingWelding Author:Temple Grandin
“Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPlayKidsSchoolBitsParentMy OwnActingSecretGrowing UpComedyGrowingFiguresMarriedLittle BitPursueTheatrical Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.” WayMindLittlesStatesHandsSchoolUsedBitsConsciousnessMysteryKeysLittle BitTrainingMethodAncientProjectionHintsAlteredCurriculumStates Of ConsciousnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
“I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.” ThinkingArtSelfSometimesHappensSchoolFilmBitsTaughtCreaturesApproachFilmmakerUnusualAngleAnimationArt SchoolFilm SchoolSelf Taught Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and quickly discovered it was impossible for a woman in those days - this was the early fifties - to be a philosopher, so I gave that up.” FirstsPhilosophyWantedSchoolFatherBitsImpossiblePhilosopherLawyerProfessorsGraduatesBugsGraduate School Author:Alix Kates Shulman