John Waters Quotes

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

I hated school. Hated it.

High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

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

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.

That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

It was all kind of a whirlwind at the beginning. I didn't really realize that I had a special gift from God. It was probably towards the end of high school in my senior year when things really started to come together and I realized that I had more potential and that I could do this as a career and that the Olympics were a possibility.

As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

High School Is Life’s Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I wasn't angry. There are lots of times that those emotions come out in my career.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.