Top 1200 English School Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

The school I went to was only famous for one thing... Peter Osgood went to that particular school. That's probably my earliest memory of the importance of football.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.

I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I always used to sing in the house and I went to school at Hywel Dda Primary School in Ely. I think they had a puppet-type show there and word got around I could sing. I sang at that puppet performance and used to sing in school. From there, it was in my blood. I didn't want to do anything else but sing.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.'

Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading list for me right now? What is this carton of milk? Will you tell me how many calories are in five and half Gummi Bears? Why are there birds in the air right now? Why is the sky so blue? Can I get the home phone number of the school district supervisor? You know I was in Basic Instinct, right?

I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English language which serves as the means by which we can communicate these values to those around us. Our common language, English, is that which unites us.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

I left school to go to so many trials. There was no point in me going to school because I was away all the time.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).