Top 1200 School Library Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I moved across the country when I was 16, so I left my high school and finished school online in order to pursue my acting more.

At school, I was basically a loner, it was hard until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school and was gifted with freedom to do the things I really wanted to do.

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school. At 17 and three months I went to the Old Vic School in London. This most remarkable and brilliant drama school lasted only six years because the Old Vic Theatre hadn't the money to go on funding it.

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.

When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.

I do school online. My favorite thing to do with school is to finish things and then watch it go away, especially when I am working on a laptop.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didnt want to go to private school.

Without federal standards for school lunches, candy bars, packaged snacks and soda can be offered to our children in school.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

We all remember special days at school, whether it was going on a field trip, doing a science experiment, or performing in a school play.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!

I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists, so I'm not the only one with this life style.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.