All Quotes

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.
‐‐ Nicolaus Copernicus

At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?
‐‐ Natalie Morales

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
‐‐ Bernard Cornwell

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.
‐‐ Steven Chu

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
‐‐ Nick Mancuso

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.
‐‐ Leila Janah

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.
‐‐ Alice Walker

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.
‐‐ Alexa Chung

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end.
‐‐ Jordana Brewster

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss

At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes.
‐‐ Desiigner

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
‐‐ Imelda May

At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.
‐‐ Frankie Valli

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
‐‐ James Dyson

At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.
‐‐ Giles Foden

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
‐‐ Candice Swanepoel

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

At school, I used to hear, 'You're a half-caste.' They'd laugh at my figure and say, 'Are you a boy or a girl?'
‐‐ Jane Birkin

At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I've always designed, and I would literally design everything I'd see: cars, bikes, motorcycles - everything.
‐‐ Giuseppe Zanotti

At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.
‐‐ Emun Elliott

At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.
‐‐ Roy Harper

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
‐‐ Laura Linney

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.
‐‐ Nick Cave

At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.
‐‐ David Blunkett

At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.
‐‐ Philip Glenister

At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
‐‐ Tobias Hill

At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.
‐‐ David Harewood

At school I was very shy and coincidentally inherited the title 'little miss worry guts,' and that was just among the staff. I learned early on that I could make people laugh, and as my small neat body betrayed me by growing to dizzying heights, I used it as a tool that translated into complete slap-stick comedy.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.
‐‐ Matt Haig

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.
‐‐ Lloyd Dorfman

At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer.
‐‐ Michelle Magorian

At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.
‐‐ Jessica Simpson

At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.
‐‐ Drew Busby

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.
‐‐ Jake Bugg

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.
‐‐ Guy Berryman

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor