Vanessa Ray quotes

I visualized high school as being like ‘Saved By the Bell.’
-- Vanessa Ray

#School #High School #Bells

I'm sensitive to how people are feeling if they feel like they got it wrong, and sensitive to the people who are kind of gloating that they knew all along, they figured it out. I'm loving them through this process, because I know that it took me a while once I found out that it was me.
-- Vanessa Ray

#People #Feelings #Kind

Whatever age you think I am, you’re probably right.
-- Vanessa Ray

#Thinking #Age

I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.
-- Vanessa Ray

#Growing Up #School #High School

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

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

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.