Fiona Apple Quotes

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

I didn't leave school early to sit on the bench.

When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

I didn't even go to graduation.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

I have a lot less faith in the system. You really don't understand how swampy it is until you get here.

The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.