Quotes tagged ‘Education’

(226 total)

“I’ve been thinking, lately, my whole life maybe, about who gets to sit down and at what cost.”

“Erica Albright: [Angry] I'm sorry you are not sufficiently impressed with my education. Mark Zuckerberg: I'm sorry I don't have a rowboat, so we're even. Erica Albright: I think we should just be friends. Mark Zuckerberg: I don't want friends. Erica Albright: I was just being polite, I have no inten…”

— Aaron Sorkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, imdb.com

“Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food…”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com

“I'm always interested in learning something new.”

— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com

“Everything is physics and math.”

— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com

“Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path.”

— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com

“Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!”

— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com

“I ain’t gonna lie to you, alright? Look, I just got out of rehab a couple days ago, and I’m trying to get my life together, you know? I’m trying. I have this little girl at home, and I”m trying to do the best I can for her so she has a future. I know I ain’t got the most education in the world. I kn…”

— Remi Aubuchon, Damon Wayans, Carlos Martinez, Vincent Laresca, imdb.com

“Kevin Jackson: Jefferson used to sleep with his slaves. The book don't say nothin' about that. They don't even say how he even had slaves. Washington neither. So I don't see why I should bust my black ass reading about a bunch of lies. Harvey Lipschultz: Well, you see Mr. Jackson, my job is to see t…”

— David E Kelley, Harvey Lipschultz, Fyvush Finkel, imdb.com

“Dr. Temperance Brennan: I find you very condescending Special Agent Seeley Booth: Me? I'm condescending? I'm not the one who has to mention that she's got a doctorate every 5 minutes Dr. Temperance Brennan: I am the one with the doctorate”

— Hart Hanson, Temperance 'Bones' Brennan, Emily Deschanel, imdb.com

“Victor: How is it you know all this but you've never gotten above a B- in calculus? Chase: Calc's boring. I like practical applications.”

— Rodney Barnes, Michael Vukadinovich, Chase Stein, Gregg Sulkin, imdb.com

“Mix curriculums, you play basketball while doing math.”

— Kanye West, youtube.com

“School is boring.”

— Kanye West, youtube.com

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, amazon.com

“They weren’t wedded to their initial opinions. They weren’t allowed to be. And they moved not toward the best answer but toward better questions.”

— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com

“I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled.”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“We have to harden the schools, not soften them up. A gun-free zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer—that’s like going in for the ice cream.”

— Donald Trump, nytimes.com

“Oh... and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?”

— Greg Daniels, Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta, imdb.com

“Vanessa Baxter: Boyd is learning Spanish at his new school. Blanca: And I will say, with *that* they are doing a very good job. Mike Baxter: Why are they teaching him Spanish in the first grade? Vanessa Baxter: Well, honey, it's a bilingual school. The teacher says everything in English and then say…”

— Kevin Hench, Mike Baxter, Tim Allen, imdb.com

“You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.”

— Michael S. Chernuchin, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com