I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.
I'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger.
I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.
I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.
Prom culture is now painstakingly documented on sites such as Instagram and Facebook, exacerbating the angst of the uninvited.
Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.
I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.
I've never been to a black-tie thing in my life. I didn't even go to my prom.
I'm glad that I had the upbringing I did where I was just part of what everyone else was a part of. And prom and all that.
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.
I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!
I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.
I don’t know. Word around the girls’ locker room is that all of you are so hard up, you were cruising the senior center, trying to find a prom date.” – Nick
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
For my prom I really wanted to wear a bright color - something that was going to pop and stand out.
During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it.
I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.
When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous.
I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.
I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.
I would be like, 'Oh, my gosh, I wish I could go to prom.' But then I think, 'You know what? A lot of people can't say they've ever done what I do - they'll never have this opportunity.'
I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.
I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
I'm not looking for people to put that vote on me to be prom king of the UFC.
I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.
You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.
Guys are awesome, but I vote for going to prom with a group of friends. It's so much less drama.
I could've gone to prom... or I could've done 'X-Men.'
Being deemed the most successful at prom does not mean you're going to do the best in your life.
I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. Girls didn't like me that much -- I didn't even go to my prom.
In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.
I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
Isn't prom just a fun dance that hardworking students deserve? Sure, but it's also an event where girls internalize damaging cultural messages.
I once gave a girl a bloody fake ear in a Tiffany jewelry box with a letter that said, “will you Gogh to prom with me?
I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.
I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.
I've never been to a prom or a dance; so it's funny, because we have dances on the show, and I'll be like, 'Oh yay! It's my school dance!'
I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
I'll probably never go to prom. I haven't ever been to a high school dance.
My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.
I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.
I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.
I've never been innocent, but I don't think I'm a bad kid! I didn't get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.
I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.
This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.
I wasn't dating anyone. I was hyper-focused on acting. So I didn't bring a guy to the prom. I was the lone gay person as far as I knew.
I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.
In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.
Getting sacks are like prom night. It never gets old.
For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.
YA fiction tends to have a finite quality. You're looking toward a goal - prom or graduation or revolution - and we leave these characters after a moment of tremendous transformation.
In high school, I had a singing group, and I designed the outfits and made my friends' prom dresses.
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
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