School Quotes - page 97

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us? View quote
Paracelsus
I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite. View quote
John Terry
Pointless but intense excitement holds us in TV dramas. We hear threatening music. A killer with a gun steals into the bedroom of a sleeping woman. More subliminal sounds of danger, pointlessly ominous. The woman wakes and runs into the kitchen for a knife. The cops are on the case. We watch as the criminal is pursued through night streets; shots, a death; a body falls from a roof. Then time is up, another drama begins. Now we are in a church. No, we are in a lecture hall; no again - a drawer opens in a morgue. A woman is looking for her kidnapped child. Then that ends, and we are on the veld with zebras and giraffes. Then with Lenin at a mass meeting. And suddenly we flash away to a cooking school; we are shown how to stuff a turkey. Next the Berlin Wall comes down. Or flags are burning. Or a panel is worrying about the rug crisis. More and more public themes, with less and less personal consciousness. Clearly, personal consciousness is shrinking. View quote
Saul Bellow
These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World. View quote
Bono
And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip. View quote
Gary Oldman
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. View quote
Ivan Illich
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. View quote
Ivan Illich
The public school has become the established church of secular society. View quote
Ivan Illich
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. View quote
Ivan Illich
I wouldn't have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely To Kill Everyone At A High School Dance. (Kurt Cobain)
Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it [was] a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out. View quote
Kurt Cobain
It takes a great deal of strong personality to survive the art school training. Hard nuts that the art schools can't crack and devour get through and become artists. View quote
John Sloan
I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone. View quote
Billy Childish
I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school. View quote
Meryl Streep
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year. View quote
Henry Ford
High school party, senior year Boys and girls are all sippin' on beer I like soda / Where's the soda? Am I the only fuckin' person here that likes soda? View quote
Bo Burnham
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic. View quote
Cat Deeley
Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [ Was that sufficiently incendiary?]. View quote
Larry Wall
Personally, I've always been of the sleek and minimalist design school: make sure the core play is consistent and strong, then let that idea play out against different environments and challenges, this tends toward focusing on bio-mechanical twitch responses, audio-visual awe, and leaning more toward general strategy and tactics development over specific puzzle solving. (John D. Carmack)
There is an influence which is getting strong and stronger day by day, which shows itself more and more in all departments of human activity, and influence most fruitful and beneficial-the influence of the artist. It was a happy day for the mass of humanity when the artist felt the desire of becoming a physician, an electrician, an engineer or mechanician or-whatnot-a mathematician or a financier; for it was he who wrought all these wonders and grandeur we are witnessing. It was he who abolished that small, pedantic, narrow-grooved school teaching which made of an aspiring student a galley-slave, and he who allowed freedom in the choice of subject of study according to one's pleasure and inclination, and so facilitated development. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Advice to students: Leap in and try things. If you succeed, you can have enormous influence. If you fail, you have still learned something, and your next attempt is sure to be better for it. Advice to graduates: Do something you really enjoy doing. If it isn't fun to get up in the morning and do your job or your school program, you're in the wrong field. View quote
Brian Kernighan
It's not so important what you [high school students] work on, so long as you're not wasting your time. Work on things that interest you and increase your options, and worry later about which you'll take. View quote
Paul Graham
There's no switch inside you [high school students] that magically flips when you turn a certain age or graduate from some institution. You start being an adult when you decide to take responsibility for your life. You can do that at any age. View quote
Paul Graham