“No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.” StatesProblemSchoolPoliticsWishAttentionHigh SchoolPaidCommunicateLatinNo ProblemLatin AmericaHead Of StateLatin American Author:Dan Quayle
“School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.” PeopleKnowsWantSchoolWishWish You Author:Dave Kellett
“Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The didactic thrust of science fiction got the genre initially pegged as children's fare. It was seen, at its best, as an extension of school and, at its worst, as teenage wish fulfillment.” ChildrenStoriesSchoolWishFictionSawsWorstParticularScience FictionGenreFulfillmentExtensionsTeenagePublishersThrustEducatorDidactic Author:Samuel R. Delany
“I wish they would teach it in schools: Give people the belief that they are going to do well. A lot of people are really talented and scared to follow their talent because you don't know where it's going.” PeopleKnowsGivingWellsSchoolBeliefWishTeachTalentScared Author:Bill Burr
“As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.” KnowsTryingPersonsHardSchoolWishBrainStudyDadDifficultyPlantSevenMy DadEightChipsTutor Author:Dichen Lachman
“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
“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 wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.” LittlesSchoolWishLater In LifeSchool Days Author:Cara Delevingne
“The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'” FirstsArtSchoolRememberNightGirlNextWishPartyMorningNiceStudentsLike YouFlatsAll NightLiverpoolArt SchoolNice GirlCynthia Author:George Harrison
“I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.” ReasonSchoolWishBecomingHealthyDoctorsMedicalUnhealthyMedical SchoolBecoming A Doctor Author:Bernie Siegel
“The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!” KindChildrenBookSchoolOrderWishJusticeAtheismSourceAuthorityConstitutionOur ChildrenFilledPositive AtheismHorribleGentlePassagesUnjust Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.” ThinkingWritingCareSchoolGirlWishStuffAudienceFansHigh SchoolFemaleMalesCleverThemeOther GirlWriting MusicCatering Author:Kathleen Hanna
“It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.” PeopleIfsShouldFirstsStatesGovernmentWould BeTodaySchoolCoursesWishUnitedRaceEducationClassUnited StatesTeacherBasesInstitutionsAssumingUniversityObligationAfrican AmericanPrimariesEstablishmentBetter OffFittingMaintenanceFirst ClassPrimary SchoolUniversity Education Author:William Howard Taft
“It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.” MenBookSelfSchoolHopeWishEducationLearningTeachingNew YorkSelf ImprovementLibraryImprovementGlamourPhilanthropist Author:Vartan Gregorian
“Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.” PeopleChildrenArtTwoBookStatesFactsUseHomeGovernmentSchoolLeftForceWishParentPayMoralityGunStriveLifestyleAlternativesAbortionOwnersAssociationHuntingEntitledStrifeHuntersTaxpayersRiflesLobbyingGun OwnersHeathersPublic Art Author:Grover Norquist
“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
“One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."” SchoolFilmMovingWishStudentsWanderFilm SchoolWandering AroundMake A Move Author:George Lucas
“I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."” GivingMadeRunningSchoolFilmWishGive Me Author:George Lucas
“All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.” StoriesSchoolWishHappenedMinesHigh SchoolSchool Experience Author:Sarah Dessen
“I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.” WayTryingHelpingSchoolFilmWishStudentsGoes OnAdmireFilm School Author:Agnes Varda