Alan Shepard Quotes

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

I skipped ninth grade. I went from eighth to tenth, and then I graduated a year early to start working, and it was a big blessing for me because I was not a school person, although I really do miss having that kind of environment.

Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their upward trajectory!

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Instant gratification takes too long.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

I can't be serious, apparently.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.