“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.” KnowsSaidPlaySchoolParentActingHigh SchoolThings To DoAuditionsConferencesBumpsSchool PlaysBumps In The Road Author:Matt Letscher
“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.” SaidSchoolHoursStudyTeacherTrainingConstantPursuitEnjoyedFixedGuidance Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.” SaidSchoolStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolJournalismGears Author:Giuliana Rancic
“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.” PeopleShouldArtSaidPlayWantedSchoolDesireActorsActingTeacherTalentFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAcceptedHonestlyPerformingGradesAuditionsWhimPerforming ArtsEnglish Teacher Author:Ving Rhames
“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.” IfsKindSaidImportantSelfSchoolEducationOpinionMillionsSelf EsteemStudentsIgnoranceIgnorantEsteemPromotingDepriving Author:Thomas Sowell
“I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.” WantSaidSchoolClassClubsPhysicsEngineeringScrewsPlaying Music Author:Huey Lewis
“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'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.” SaidSchoolTeacherGradesBlindnessGrades In SchoolDyslexic Author:Debbie Macomber
“I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.” SaidHomeSchoolUsedTeacherExampleInstrumentsMusicalNeglectSenatorsPublic SchoolCharlieBudBenignElementary SchoolMusical InstrumentsMusic Teacher Author:Max Roach
“Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.” ShouldChildrenSaidStatesMightSchoolParentUnderstandingPresidentLinesCommonQualityClearTeacherWiseStudentsSucceedSkillsOceanStandardsHigh SchoolWestDetermineEducationalFormerCodeExcellentConsistentMailBobGovernorsPeersAlliancesVirginiaAssessmentWorkforceZipsSortingWest VirginiaParents And TeachersAfter High SchoolExcellent Education Author:Bob Wise
“It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.” MenSaidMomentsSchoolForceSimpleWalksViolenceBuildingHe ManWallTruth IsOfficeGunBallsThreatExtremesCirclesTeenagerShootingReasonablePairsThroatKnivesGun ControlKickingCurlsSidewalkSimple TruthsOffice Buildings Author:Rory Miller
“I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."” YearsKindSaidEndsSchoolRememberNamesFeltStupidTestsCrisisStuckCleverExistentialThey SaidBizarreExistential Crisis Author:Kit Harington
“Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know” KnowsSaidSchoolJobsLastsRememberLostDatingDiedInsecureRemember WhenGrandmaDumped Author:Tom Arnold
“What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.” KnowsChildrenSaidWantedSchoolParentTeacherInformationPrimariesDiscussionReportsPrimary SchoolSchool Reports Author:Carol J. Adams
“I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, "This is not getting me anywhere. I'm stagnating with these guys." They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.” LittlesSaidSchoolGuyRoomsBoysCarDrugAlcoholDrunkEggsThrowingDestroyingWeekendEnteringLittle BoysGetting DrunkVandalismBreaking And Entering Author:Johnny Depp
“I'm a child of the downloading age. I remember when I was 10, a friend who went to the same school as me came to our [school's] costume party with a really weird hairdo. She had all these little knots in her hair. I asked her who she was and she said she was Björk. I thought this Björk must be a really cool person, so I got on the internet when I got home and found as much as I could on Björk and I fell in love.” ChildrenLittlesPersonsSaidHomeAgeSchoolRememberFoundPartyHairInternetCostumesRemember WhenReally CoolKnotsReally WeirdHairdosCool Person Author:Tove Styrke
“I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.” IfsKnowsSaidSchoolGirlCoursesHoursActingTeacherDramaDegreesHigh SchoolUniversityEnjoyedBiologyHonourEleventh Hour Author:Matt Frewer
“The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'” WayChildrenSaidIdeasSchoolLostPresidentInterestAttitudeTeacherGroupsExampleOffersUnionsDareDuesProtestNew IdeasRepresentingFederationTeachers Unions Author:Mitt Romney
“A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment” IfsSaidSchoolFoundSimpleTomorrowCancerMedicalTreatmentHospitalsRevenueBostonBankruptcySpecialistsVergeReplacementsSpecialtyInexpensiveMedical SchoolChemotherapyCancer TreatmentOncology Author:Barry Lynes
“My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to help you as an actor, but if you want to be an actor, give it a go for a year. Get a job. And if you don't get a job, then we're going to reevaluate and you're going to go back to school." And I thought that was a fair thing.” IfsKnowsWantGivingYearsLooksSaidHelpingSchoolJobsGuyActorsParentKnow HowDadFairsMy DadConservativeLovelyGreat ParentsShopkeepers Author:John Kapelos
“I'll never forget my high school acting teacher, Anthony Abeson, who said, "It starts with the shoes." When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them? If I'm going to put on a dress for a role - I don't care if it's the hardest dress to put on - I have to put the shoes on first. The physicality leads me to the character.” IfsThinkingFirstsKindDoeSaidCharacterCareSchoolWalksForgetActingRolesTeacherHigh SchoolDressesShoesDon't CareHardestI Don't CareNever ForgetLeading MePhysicalityActing Teachers Author:Jennifer Aniston
“We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.” PeopleLongSaidEnoughBodySchoolGirlCitiesOur LivesLowsDiedLaysMissionsMapsMailBurnedThey SaidMedalCasualtiesBombers Author:Randall Jarrell
“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.” MenSaidPlayFactsWantedSchoolFatherLeftStageFootballFoolAssPro Football Author:Bill Cosby
“Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.” IfsWayYearsLongSaidStillsCountrySchoolMorningDogLoversHolyShadowGreenWarmBeerBritainFiftyPoolCommunionCricketMistInvincibleSuburbsMaidsDog LoverWell SaidHoly CommunionOld MaidsFillersLong ShadowsMorning Mist Author:John Major
“Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.” SaidShowsBodySchoolEqualStandardsAbsolutesSacredAbsenceBarsInquiryCriteriaOrthodoxyInfallibleAbsolute TruthClique Author:William Stanley Jevons
“Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.” MenSaidSchoolProduceMen And WomenEducateFactoriesSocialistSteelAluminum Author:Hugo Chavez
“I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought us closer together. I think it had to do with shooting an episode last season at a school. The students swarmed around him, and I'm walking along and feeling like yesterday's lunch. I was saying that was hard to deal with sometimes and he said, "Stephanie, you can go for it! All you have to do is play sexy." It was a nice chat, but the tabloids took it and made it out that I was jealous. I'm not jealous.” ThinkingWayMadeSaidSometimesHardPlayFeelingsSchoolTogetherLastsFunDealsNiceStudentsWalkingSeasonsSexyYesterdayMade ItShootingJealousLunchOur RelationshipEpisodesSmoothSailingTabloidsFeudsNot JealousSmooth Sailing Author:Stephanie Zimbalist
“When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.” TryingMeanSaidSchoolRememberMy FriendsBeing YourselfAffectedBullyingJust Be Yourself Author:Kaitlyn
“Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'” IfsSaidSchoolParentAmountPotNotable Author:Conan O'Brien
“I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.” SaidProblemSchoolLostSportsProcessTeacherNervousEnthusiasmUpsetGradesLazyFlunking Author:Bruce Jenner
“This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."” SaidSchoolNationsTeachDemocracyAtheismMankindExampleAspire Book:The Arrogance of Power Source: The Arrogance of Power
“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.” ThinkingShouldSaidSchoolLastsFilmFormNightSawsBasketballHigh SchoolDecidedYeahPopsLast NightWadeFree ThrowD Wade Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.” WritingSaidSchoolNightEducation Author:George Ade
“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.” WellsSaidKidsSchoolMotherCoursesHigh SchoolOkayDollarsTeenagerNeighborhood Author:Trina Robbins