Junior Quotes - page 8

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. (Sophie Ellis-Bextor)
I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation. View quote
Teri Polo
The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me. View quote
Theo Rossi
I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major. View quote
Wes Brown
When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time. View quote
will.i.am
I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them! View quote
Sigourney Weaver
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt. View quote
Peter Agre
Augustus Fagan, Esquire, Ph. D., Llanabba Castle, N. Wales, requires immediately junior assistant to teach Classics and English to University Standard with subsidiary Mathematics, German and French. Experience essential; first-class games essential... 'Might have been made for you,' said Mr Levy. 'But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.' 'It doesn't do to be too modest,' said Mr Levy. 'It's wonderful what one can teach when one tries.. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I went to public school up until junior high. View quote
Kristen Stewart
When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank. View quote
Eric Dickerson
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian. (Eric Kandel)
Fresh out the bank, it's the Birdman Junior, money too long. Teachers, put away your rulers. View quote
Lil Wayne
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. View quote
Michael Polanyi
I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies. View quote
George Smoot
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien. View quote
George R. R. Martin
I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row. View quote
Steven Tyler
I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now. View quote
Steven Wright
There'd always been something about the boy, he was smart and stupid at the same time. As if he was meant to do everything the wrong way. Junior league ball, the boy was twelve, they subbed him in for the pitcher, good arm but he chokes, eight runs straight, loses the game. Afterward acting like nothing happened. It made no sense. The feeling that gave you, watching your son lose the game, but he just shrugged it off, didn't care. View quote
Philipp Meyer
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. View quote
Alice Walker
In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day. (Will Ferrell)
I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!' View quote
Regina King
From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing. View quote
Chloë Sevigny
I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young. View quote
Chloë Sevigny
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? View quote
Camille Paglia