Quotes with school-masters

Quotes 281 till 300 of 360.

  • Isadora Duncan The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
    - +
     0
  • Brian De Palma The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Menander of Athens The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
    - +
     0
  • Marshall Mcluhan The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Ernest Renan The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
    - +
     0
  • Will Smith The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
    Will Smith
    American actor, film producer and rapper (born 1968) (1968 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • Camille Paglia The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Viola The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bobby McFerrin Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bobby McFerrin Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Beth Henley Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Camilla Luddington There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
    Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
    - +
     0
  • Brunello Cucinelli There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions - to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
    - +
     0
  • Bill Dedman There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bela Lugosi There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Boyd Holbrook There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
    - +
     0
  • Ben Roethlisberger There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Keller There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Billy Dee Williams There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
    - +
     0
All school-masters famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 15)