“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.” LooksStillsSchoolResultsNovelProgressHeardChangedHigh SchoolHollywoodElectionProducersLife ChangingScreenwritersDrawersWishbones Author:Tom Perrotta
“One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.” WorldGivingSchoolOrderHeardDadOne DayBandHigh SchoolMy DadRadioAlbumsObsessed Author:Lukas Haas
“A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.” GivingArtIdeasWholeSchoolFormSuccessfulHeardExpressionFoundationWorks Of ArtSelectObscurityLanguish Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.” KnowsGodSchoolChurchHeardFoolGoodnessSaintTheeDesertGod Knows Author:Matthew Arnold
“I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.” KnowsHumansSchoolNextFeltHuman BeingsHeardHigh SchoolInstrumentsFlatsChicagoNext DayHornsJuniorsJunior HighBeing PlayedHigh School JuniorTromboneBaritonesLouisvilleTubasFrench Horn Author:Quincy Jones
“Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.” Has BeensGovernmentSchoolGenerationsHeardInformationStudentsTaughtDrugHigh SchoolPoliceIncludingFactualHigh School Students Author:Ann Shulgin
“Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.” SchoolAmericaSoundHeardHallsLike Something Author:Nicky Whelan
“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenHas BeensStoriesSeemsSchoolRememberUsedMotherFatherLanguageBlackGraceHeardGreekBlack PeopleMarvelousAuntOhio Author:Toni Morrison
“I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.” FeelsWritingFirstsBookStoriesSchoolWishSoundHeardStudentsMy FriendsDrinkingAffairLuxuryGradGrad School Author:Jami Attenberg
“Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.” ThinkingLittlesArtCharacterUseKidsSchoolSongImaginationCreativeHeardStupidDramaAdultsBunchBeachSandLittle Kid Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.” FirstsHomeSchoolClassTeacherHeardCoupleDramaHigh SchoolAlbumsKicksTexasBobDylanBack Home Author:Steve Earle
“Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.” RunningAgeWantedSchoolParentEducationHeardAdviceCollegePrisonManageExecutivesRetirementOrphanDiscussingCorrectionsAsylumsRetirement AgeAlumni Author:Robert H. Jackson