All Quotes

School was not a place I enjoyed.
‐‐ Sean Harris

School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.
‐‐ James Blunt

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.
‐‐ India de Beaufort

School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
‐‐ Robert C. Merton

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.
‐‐ Clive Anderson

Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
‐‐ James Heckman

Schooling is so important.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
‐‐ Nicholas Meyer

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'
‐‐ James Patterson

Schools are launching pads, launching our kids into their futures. Unfortunately, a lot of what we teach now looks identical to what we taught 40, 50, or 60 years ago. There's a need for both timeless curriculum content and timely content. What seems to be falling by the wayside is timely content.
‐‐ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.
‐‐ Erin Gruwell

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
‐‐ John Kricfalusi

Schools are really, really important. It gives you access to every kid in the country. It gives you a massive pool of people to see who might be talented at different sports. It allows kids to try sports. Kids can be inspired all they want, but if they can't go out and try a sport, then it's no good.
‐‐ Alistair Brownlee

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
‐‐ James S. Coleman

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.
‐‐ Janet Reno

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society.
‐‐ Chris Gabrieli

Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.
‐‐ Sugata Mitra

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.
‐‐ Peter Fraser

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
‐‐ Kirk Gibson

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.
‐‐ John Banner

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
‐‐ Murray Walker

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
‐‐ Nate Holland

Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss

Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.
‐‐ Richard Hatch

Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.
‐‐ Rachel Nichols

Sci-fi fans are eccentric.
‐‐ Traci Bingham

Sci-fi fans are the best fans you can have. You could be doing the worst piece of tat which might have a robot or vampire in, and some people will become obsessed by it and know every little detail. 'Being Human' has crossed over from sci-fi fans to being a drama that everyone can enjoy.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!
‐‐ Greg Evigan

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.
‐‐ Brooke Nevin

Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?
‐‐ John Cleese

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, 'The 5th Wave,' explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.
‐‐ Rick Yancey

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.
‐‐ Claudia Christian