“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.” MadePlaySchoolMotherThreeEvilFatherSpeakWiseGoldClubsCharmGrandmotherFascinatedMonkeysMy GrandmotherLap Author:Mackenzie Phillips
“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
“But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.” YearsKindTwoSchoolFormThreeUniversityClubsMedicalThree YearsPsychiatryCoveringCalendarsMedical School Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“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
“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
“In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.” MenMadeCountryTodaySchoolBoysSuccessfulTypeClubsNot InterestedBrutalCountry Clubs Author:Louis Auchincloss
“I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!” ThinkingWorldLongStillsTodaySchoolWaitingMaterialsGrewGrew UpWindowCriticsClubsListsHarbors1930sYachtPrivate SchoolNouveau Riche Author:Louis Auchincloss
“Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools." This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.” KnowsLongStillsSchoolAmericaPrayerGroupsStudentsPrayingResponsibleBlameCourtClubsTerroristFamiliarThrowingSquaresPublic SchoolJerryTerrorist Attacks Author:Wendy Kaminer
“When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. Before that, I never realized how much I sought other people's approval. Once I figured that out, I was free to move on and seek the approval of other people, in comedy clubs and showbiz meetings.” PeopleSchoolMovingLawFoundComedyGood ThingsMeetingsClubsDisappointedApprovalDisappointingLaw SchoolDisapprovalShowbizComedy ClubsApproval Of Others Author:Demetri Martin
“I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.” KnowsBodyKidsSchoolPresidentStudentsDramaHigh SchoolSevenClubsImpressReignDrama Club Author:Nicholas Braun
“Our early days - our audiences were always very sparse. We played very obscure places in very obscure parts of the world, mainly Kansas. We played frat parties, we played high school proms, we played clubs.” WorldSchoolPartyAudienceHigh SchoolClubsObscureKansasPromFrat Parties Author:Phil Ehart
“I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.” SchoolComfortClubsZoneComfort ZoneDallasBuyersLess Is More Author:Jean-Marc Vallee