Quotes and Sayings About School
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I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.
-- Amanda Peet -
Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.
-- Amber Heard -
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
-- Amber Heard -
I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.
-- Amber Riley -
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it...
-- Ambrose Bierce -
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.
-- Amelia Warner -
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.
-- Amish Tripathi -
In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.
-- Amity Shlaes -
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.
-- Amity Shlaes -
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
-- Amy Adams -
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
-- Amy Adams -
I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
-- Amy Adams -
I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
-- Amy Adams -
In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.
-- Amy Adams -
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
-- Amy Chua -
I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
-- Amy Chua -
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.
-- Amy Chua -
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.
-- Amy Chua -
The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre.
-- Amy Heckerling -
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story meeting with studio executives with no particular ability or actors who haven't even graduated high school telling you exactly how to change your script, you haven't experienced what it's really like to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. Also, unlike novelists and playwrights, you don't own the copyright on your original material. It hurts when you sell a project you love and then suddenly the project you really cared about will never see the light of day.
-- Amy Holden Jones -
Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.
-- Amy Jo Martin -
If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.
-- Amy Klobuchar
