SAT Quotes

Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished.

Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

He's just intelligent-sort of a nerd, actually. He's the only brother I know who made a 1420 on the SAT. I don't think Chris Dudley did that, and Mr. Smarty Pants went to Yale. Kobe doesn't hang out. He doesn't go to the clubs. He doesn't ride around. He doesn't put rims on his car. He's just him. He's a sophisticated kid. Damn mature for his age.

I had very little going for me as a kid except for the fact that I had demanding parents and was very good at filling out bubbles on standardized tests. I went to the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University because I did well on the SAT. I went to Exeter because I did well on the SAT.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.

The fact is that the College Board's products - the SAT, other standardized tests, the accompanying strategy guides - are sold at far higher than the cost to make them.

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT is just one of those things.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

For the educational establishment... test scores are treated as indications of the extent to which the required ground covering has been done. ...as educationally significant. However, while they may be prognostic of a child's ability to get through school... they do not provide us with an appraisal of the child's progress in the long process of becoming a generally educated human being -- the advance made toward a more skillful, thoughtful, and cultivated mind.

Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.

If I sat down in any room, I'd have as much to learn from anybody in that room as they'd have to learn from me. If I sit down and just really listen and hear who you are and what you have to say, what you fears are, what your ambitions are, and what your vision is, I have just as much to learn from you as you have to learn from me.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.