School Quotes

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

~ Venus Williams

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

~ Catherine Hardwicke

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.

~ Andrew Luck

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.

~ Daniel Wu

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

~ Michael Graves

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

~ Michael Graves

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

~ Michael Graves

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

~ Joanna Going

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

~ Joseph Kosinski

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

~ Joseph Kosinski

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

~ Art Garfunkel

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

~ Stephen Sprouse

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

~ Cesar Pelli

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

~ Hugh Hardy

I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

~ Nico Tortorella

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

~ Emilio Ambasz

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

~ Dante Ferretti

I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

~ Pam Dawber

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

~ Alan Dershowitz

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

~ Deirdre O'kane

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

~ Albert Einstein

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

~ Chuck Grassley

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

~ Will Smith

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

~ Giada De Laurentiis

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

~ Jeb Bush

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

~ Josie Loren

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

~ Claire Tomalin

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

~ Johannes Tauler

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

~ Ashley Montagu

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

~ Ann Bancroft

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

~ Dianne Feinstein

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

~ John Rowland

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

~ Willard Wigan

I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

~ Huey Newton

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

~ Rene Redzepi

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

~ Jimmy Page

The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

~ Ron White

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

~ Dennis Farina

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

~ John Irving

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

~ B. B. King