Quotes tagged ‘Boarding School’

(3 total)

“I was a precocious child. My parents thought boarding school would do me good so they sent me to one when I was seven, dear. I look back on it and I think it was marvellous. You learn to look after yourself and it taught me to have responsibility.”

— Freddie Mercury, theguardian.com

“Rachel Chu: Thanks for meeting me here. [Eleanor eyes the other two women at the mahjong table] Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak Hokkien. [Long pause as Eleanor reluctantly settles into her seat] me mahjong would teach me important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Coo…”

— Pete Chiarelli, Adele Lim, Rachel Chu, Constance Wu, imdb.com

“He was cold, calculating, never told me he loved me, never even told me he liked me, so it's a bit hard for me to digest that he said the whole future is riding on me thing, I don't get that! You're talking about a man whose happiest day of his life was shipping me off to boarding school.”

— Justin Theroux, Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., amazon.com