“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.” PeopleYearsHomeSchoolPastThreeGoneGenerationsModernReadyCooksMealsRelevantModern LifeOver The PastHome LifeThree GenerationsProcessed FoodTakeaways Author:Jamie Oliver
“When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.” YearsSchoolGoneDramaForgottenLondonAuditions Author:Julia Ormond
“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!” PeopleKnowsWholeWould BeSchoolActorsGoneWhole LifeOne Friend Author:Sara Paxton
“I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.” PeopleWorldSchoolMy OwnGoneWonderfulThis WorldRight NowDrawsWonderful Things Author:Lily Rabe
“I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.” ArtReasonSchoolGoneTeacherHigh SchoolDepartmentAlabamaArt Teacher Author:Sela Ward
“My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.” PlaySchoolSportsGonePlayerMajorsHigh SchoolCoachesLeagueContractsRaysMajor League Author:Robin Yount
“My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.” SchoolInterestGoneMagicHigh SchoolComedian Author:Gary McCord
“I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.” YearsSchoolFilmGoneCoupleGood TimesHaving A Good TimeFilm SchoolBartending Author:Justin Zackham
“If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.” IfsSchoolGoalGoneFootballExposureScholarship Author:Michael Corbat
“if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most.” IfsWayWantGivingMadeEnoughFactsWantedSchoolChristianGoneStrangeBandBuiltBiggerResistancePublicityAnimosityChristian Schools Author:Marilyn Manson
“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.” MenMayHas BeensStillsTodaySchoolGivenGoneHonorEthicsProfessorsGraduatesElites1960sScholarshipReservedYaleGraduate SchoolWasps Author:Camille Paglia
“I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.” ChildrenStatesHomeSchoolLastsLyingMotherFallFoundRealizingImaginationGoneFeetColdMembersWinterCornersDrawingClothingsEquipmentMy ImaginationMother And ChildWinter ColdRigourBeddingSackingSaskatchewan Author:Tommy Douglas
“When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.” SchoolGoneFiveSingingDancingTouringSinging And Dancing Author:Michael Jackson
“My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15 and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.” WayYearsMindDifferentSchoolGoneTeacherHigh SchoolMy FavoriteDifferent WaysBrazilEnglish Teacher Author:Win Butler
“Ive never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.” SchoolGoneCookingCulinaryCooking LoveCulinary LoveCulinary School Author:Keshia Knight Pulliam
“I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.” PeopleWorldDifferentMatterSchoolPastCultureGoneGroupsHabitPrisonCorporationsParadigm Author:Bob Proctor
“My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f—ing Mercedes. You better f—ing believe it.” WayYearsBelieveI CanKidsSchoolFacesHouseDarkCitiesMorningGoneDegreesDaughterSittingDriversTake MeBusEvery MorningSmellyUptownCity Bus Author:Louis C. K.
“I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.” ThinkingKindSchoolLiteratureLeftWishDecisionGoneUniversityKnackEnglish Literature Author:Brendan Coyle
“I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on "Community."” SchoolCommunityGoneComedyGradGrad School Author:Gillian Jacobs
“Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.” PersonsDoeSchoolGoneStreetsCollegeElitesSmarter Author:Vikas Swarup
“I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.” WayYearsSelfAbleSchoolStuffMusicLaughingGoneWonderfulHappenedCrazyAdultsFairsCatholicHealFormerTherapyShellsNaiveCatholic SchoolPhysical Therapy Author:Lady Gaga
“In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.” SchoolGoneBuildingHigh SchoolBostonAutonomous Author:Michael Welch
“Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.” PeopleShouldMeanEnoughSchoolFilmLawPoliticalActorsDealsOpinionGoneHavensPolicyEducatedExpertsPlatformsLaw School Author:Angelina Jolie
“I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.” KnowsWantHas BeensHardSchoolTogetherWishStuffKnow HowGoneUnderstoodCome UpDyslexia Author:Hank Williams III
“None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.” InspirationalWritingArtSelfSeemsSchoolCoursesLiteratureDifficultCommonGoneDangerTaughtIndividualityStudiosProofInkNinetyGeeseBrethrenSuperfluousEliminatingHandwritingCommon ThingsSelf TaughtArt Of Writing Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another.” WarRunningSchoolGirlBoysGoneClothesTownsForgottenMedicalRussiaRunning AwayVolunteerExaminationGreat WarFormality Book:Russia in 1916 Source: Russia in 1916
“As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.” IfsLooksDoneCareSchoolGivenSleepPayWonderGoneCollegeBasketballHigh SchoolMy FamilyBillsTake CareCoachingIf I CouldContractsOlympicsBroadcasting Author:Doug Collins
“I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I've always gone to school. The part that's not normal is that I've been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it's completely normal to me.” SchoolGoneMonthsNormalNormal Life Author:Ashley Olsen
“It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.” LongI CanEnoughFeelingsRealitySchoolRememberThreeLeftMemoriesGoneTeacherFourHonestBeing HonestVividFunny ThingsFadedTediumBad Memories Author:Colin Firth
“If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensMadeMightSchoolRememberJoyGoneTeacherTenGoodnessExcitingMathBrilliantPrimariesChemistrySchool TeachersPrimary SchoolMath TeacherChemistry Teachers Author:Colin Firth
“Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.” PeopleWorldArtSchoolArtistUnderstandingGoneDenialLegacyHumanistExposedMainstreamPublishingEngagingModernismArt SchoolAvant Garde Author:Tommy McCarthy
“Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.” PeopleKnowsI CanSchoolGirlWaitingGoneGradesFourthFourth Grade Author:Anton Yelchin
“I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.” IfsEnoughSchoolGoneCollegeCleverComposingHopkinsComposing Music Author:Anthony Hopkins
“It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensSchoolGoneBeatsCatholicHelpfulGrammarNunGrammar School Author:Fran Lebowitz
“When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.” MadeImportantHelpingWantedSchoolFeltMistakeBoysGoneTeacherCollegeDecidedGradesSame MistakesSchool TeachersMaking The Same Mistakes Author:Bill Cosby
“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.” PeopleHeartChildrenHas BeensProblemSchoolLastsPassionJusticeForgetCommonLibertyGoneTroubleHonestTomorrowSpeechNewsOrdinaryComplexesLegsPreservesEggsPoetry IsClingingBad NewsOutspokenCadenceOpaqueFryingTruth And JusticeCommon LifeHashBuoys Author:Garrison Keillor
“I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.” IfsThinkingWellsSchoolOpportunityGoneHigh SchoolScaredOscarsExam Author:Hugh Jackman
“People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldTryingSchoolTogetherReadingAttentionGoneTroublePaidHarmSundayGood WorkBotheredDoing GoodSleevesAnnoyedSunday SchoolReading The Bible Author:Jack McDevitt
“You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.” KnowsShouldImportantSchoolGamesNamesGonePursuitPursueGradGrad SchoolTrivial Things Author:Christian Finnegan
“I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything.” IfsThinkingAgeSchoolParentGoneGrewCostGrew UpPrisonSouthValleysRealisedWales Author:Thighpaulsandra
“I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot.” SchoolChristianParentGoneGrandparentKindergartenElementary SchoolChristian Schools Author:Hillary Scott
“I've kind of gone from TV series to TV series or project to project, and I've wanted to get back in a rehearsal room. I feel like there's that exploration process, in a way, that you get in phases on jobs but I do wish I had that time [at school].” WayFeelsKindWantedSchoolJobsWishProcessRoomsGoneTvsProjectsSeriesExplorationGet BackPhasesRehearsalTv Series Author:Jenna Coleman
“When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.” FirstsWarCountryWantedSchoolPresidentGoneFinishedGraduatesGraduate SchoolGulf War Author:Lily King
“I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongHas BeensKidsSchoolSocialFeltMy OwnGoneThis WorldAmountSkillsAnxietyLong TimeEnormousWealthyPolishedPrepsSocial Skills Author:Dan Chaon
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsFactsSchoolJobsViewsEconomyGoneTroubleExamplePeriodsShapesLuckyFindingsGirlfriendMultipleMy GirlfriendMultiple Jobs Author:Chris Baio
“I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.” SchoolFoundGoneTechniqueWorthwhile Author:Morgan Freeman
“There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.” SchoolYoungActorsWishGoneDramaEnglandComing OutYoung Actors Author:Ed Speleers
“My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.” BelieveI CanSchoolMotherGoneBeachScareWorking A Lot Author:Bo Derek
“I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.” AgeSchoolNightLeftGoneGroupsCollegeSixAbsolutesHanging OutEvery NightReally GreatBlastGreat Friend Author:Kiefer Sutherland