“I've spoken in front of members of the U.S. Congress about a new dream of living in communities where everybody is welcome and everyone can live and go to school and work without facing the fear of bullies.” DreamSchoolCommunityFrontsMembersCongressWelcomeBully Author:Lauren Potter
“Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.” PeopleTwoHardHelpingSchoolGrowing UpGrowingSeeingFrontsDadCatholicMy DadSeatsHelp MeToiletsCatholic School Author:Mia Love
“I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.” PlayMightSchoolSpiritBoysRolesImagineFrontsAttractionChiefsSundayDelightedDrunkardsSunday SchoolVomiting Author:Robertson Davies
“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.” PeopleLooksImportantProblemSchoolAbilityHalfTeachStudyTeacherSubjectsFrontsStudentsLaughedClassmates Author:Simon Soloveychik
“I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!” TryingHardSchoolGirlClassFrontsOne DayHigh SchoolMy FriendsLipsSeatsChairsBloodyClownShowing OffClumsyStitchesTrying So Hard Author:Prince Royce
“I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.” SchoolUsedNightNextHouseHoursFrontsStandingMirrorsTablesWork OutLengthNext Day Author:Clemence Poesy
“For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?” MenLooksDreamSchoolFacesSoundChurchPartyAirFrontsIntegrityJudgmentDoctrineInnocenceAttachmentFormulasEverlastingWrathDecencySplendorRegularityThin AirPersonal IntegritySound Doctrine Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.” StillsKidsSchoolGuyBehindsAudienceFourFrontsHavensChangedHigh SchoolStandingGuitarBack WhenI Haven't ChangedRocking Out Author:Dion DiMucci
“[On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.” LooksChildrenKidsTodaySchoolDestinyFrontsHigh SchoolGoldHotSizeGoldenPantsBootsSheetsSectionsSupermarketsOverloadDryersStilettosHot Pants Author:Jancee Dunn
“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.” StillsDifferentStoriesWantedSchoolCoursesAudienceStageFrontsTelevisionInvolvedHigh SchoolExcitingTheaterLuxuryGet BackBroadway Author:Dennis Haysbert
“Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?” ThinkingKnowsWorldSchoolWalksFrontsStudentsStandingToolsBlindClassroomAuditoriumsBlind Date Author:Libba Bray
“The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.” YearsMindSchoolChristianNamesFrontsMiseryFiftyCollectionsSundayGenocideAssociationImpressMassacresSunday SchoolArmeniansArmeniaArmenian Genocide Book:Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920 Source: Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920
“Most kids come home from school. They don't go to their TVs first. They go to the Internet. They check their emails, or some blogs, or some sites. Then they go watch TV. Other people are at work all day 9-5 in front of a computer. They see certain clips. We're not going to hide the fact that people use the Internet. We're going to try to be as interactive as possible with our fans. I'm currently on Twitter and Facebook and Flicker and Dig. I'm on all that stuff.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsUseHomeKidsSchoolCertainStuffWatchesFansFrontsTvsInternetComputerChecksComing HomeSiteEmailBlogsClipFlickerInteractiveTwitter And Facebook Author:Jimmy Fallon
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and telling them why you want to go to a particular university. That's probably what you would actually sound like. Then write your letter to the university, and put those 2 versions in front of you, and look at the difference between those 2 things.” WantWritingLooksSchoolSoundDifferencesTeacherFrontsParticularHigh SchoolAdultsLettersUniversityVersionsUnclesAuntSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:David Sedaris
“Women should feel more liberated to say you know what? I can't bake the cookies for the school bake sale because I just don't have the time. Or I'm really sorry, but I can't do this at work because I've got too much else going on this week. We have to be more up front in saying no, for lack of a better word, and then modeling that for others.” KnowsFeelsShouldI CanSchoolToo MuchWeekFrontsSorryCookiesModelingLiberatedSaying NoBake Sale Author:Debora Spar
“The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.” PeopleBookWarSchoolRememberBoysCenturyFrontsQuietWesternSoldierClassicInstant20th CenturyClassic Book Author:Ann Widdecombe
“I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths GCSE – I really liked it and got an A – so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn’t have a clue.” IfsWellsSchoolCareersFrontsPaperMathBiologyChemistryClueExamForensics Author:Nikki Sanderson
“The camera course was a bit crap. But when I was in drama school, I wasn't interested. I wanted to be a stage actress. I was not interested in learning camera craft. But then you throw yourself in the deep end when you do get a job in front of the camera because you have absolutely no idea what you're doing, and it is a skill.” IdeasEndsWantedSchoolJobsCoursesBitsStageFrontsDramaSkillsCamerasActressesCraftsNo IdeaNot InterestedCrap Author:Phoebe Fox
“It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.” PeopleYearsEyeSchoolFilmGrowsGrowing UpFrontsIndustryDirectorsSixAcceptedFranceFilmmakerInitiativeFilm School Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid, Justin. My office at the time was right in the front, so I just looked out the window. I couldn't write. I couldn't concentrate. I was like, "What are you doing? What do you expect to achieve by standing in front of my house with my daughter inside?" I hated that kid so much.” WritingKidsSchoolRememberHouseBoysAchieveFrontsOfficeDaughterStandingWindowHatedMy DaughterHanging OutTwelveRemember WhenJustinAfter School Author:Cinco Paul
“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. I learned a lot of technical aspects that you take for granted once you know them, but you have to learn them somewhere, along the way. It was a bit of a training ground for me, working in front of the camera and also dealing with media.” KnowsWayFirstsSchoolJobsBitsTermRolesMediaFrontsDramaTrainingDaughterAspectCamerasGranted Author:Dustin Clare
“I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.” PeopleWorldPersonsDifferentHardWholeBigsWould BeSchoolJobsEasyPayAttentionCareersAudienceFrontsCollegeStandingWhole WorldCupsPay AttentionBest ThingsGradesBreastsGraduatesGood JobReductionGraduate SchoolGood GradesGood CollegeSmall Person Author:Janeane Garofalo
“The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.” KidsAbleSchoolJobsHouseEnjoyClassEconomyMiddleFrontsTradeBe GoodShipsMiddle ClassAgreementWorking ClassImprovingTrade AgreementsMiddle Class Family Author:Russ Feingold
“When I was in high school, my mom gave me a paperweight. It was when I was going through my 'not that interested in doing homework or really working on anything' phase and the paperweight said "If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes." And that's sort of the same thing, if you're not always working to be in the front.” IfsSaidSchoolViewsDogFrontsMomHigh SchoolMy MomPhasesNever ChangeHomeworkAlways Working Author:Amanda Schull
“I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.” SchoolWishFrontsDown AndAirplaneShut UpElementary School Author:Alonzo Bodden
“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.” CountrySchoolCitiesTechnologyDoorsFrontsStudentsHighestHigh SchoolMetalsTypicalEmbarrassingFront DoorsDisgracefulMetal Detectors Author:Bran Ferren
“Well, growing up in LA, things are kind of thrust in front of you. You're almost forced to grow up pretty fast, with experiences and stuff. Going to that school there were a lot of rich girls, a lot of partying, a lot of wild things. You're put in this environment where you're forced to wear a uniform. It was all girls, so you rebel naturally, I think. I don't know, I just kind of got inspiration from every day living and going to school.” ThinkingKnowsWellsKindInspirationSchoolGirlGrowsStuffPartyGrowing UpRichEnvironmentGrowingFrontsRebelUniformsThrustWild ThingsRich Girl Author:Sarah Hudson
“I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike.” YearsFirstsStillsHomeBigsSchoolRememberHouseWaitingHalfFrontsMonthsRedMy FavoriteSeatsGradesHospitalsYellowBikeBicycleBananas Author:Brian Littrell
“There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.” PlaySchoolAudienceFrontsThrillRoller CoasterCoastersElementary SchoolSchool Plays Author:Mira Sorvino
“I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.” ThinkingBookSchoolRememberFrontsPaintingHigh SchoolGenuineSculpture Author:Joe Bradley
“WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.” IfsKnowsSchoolJobsFrontsYouthReaderHorrorContemporaryHolocaustEasternInvasionWwiiNormandyHitler Youth Author:Anthony Doerr
“When I was in middle school, I tried to impress this girl by jumping over this ledge on a scooter. I caught the edge of the ledge and totally fell right in front of her. I never talked to her again. So [my advice is], take it easy if you have a school crush!” IfsSchoolGirlEasyMiddleAdviceFrontsEdgesCaughtCrushImpressJumpingMiddle SchoolThis GirlTake It EasyLedgesScooters Author:Kevin Jonas
“I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.” I CanPlaySchoolUsedGamesMemoriesGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingFrontsSittingChessIntenseBoardsRuinedTournaments Author:Chris Hardwick
“There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.” TwoSchoolBeautifulHouseBehindsFrontsProjectsPatternsBlockLooking ForwardNew OrleansLiteralGhettoMansions Author:Tyler Perry
“I couldn't even speak in front of a group of students when I was in high school. I could barely do that sort of thing. But once I started doing the "YES!" chant down to the ring and people would do it with me, it allowed me to feel more comfortable.” PeopleFeelsSchoolSpeakGroupsFrontsStudentsComfortableHigh SchoolRings Author:Daniel Bryan
“There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.” GivingShouldWritingPersonsMadeDoneSchoolFilmPiecesFeetFrontsLateShotsConnectionsDecidedShould HaveGive MeExcuseConvincedMagazinesEditorsArticlesBrooklynRogerFilm School Author:Alex Stapleton