Your perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. "It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances."
Now what am I supposed to say to that?
"What do you have to say for yourself?"
Friggin' mind reader.
- Randa Abdel Fattah
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
- Gracie Allen
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
- Dorothy Allison
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
- Malcolm Arnold
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
- Rowan Atkinson
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
- Paul Auster
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
- Sergey Brin
Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.
- Po Bronson
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
- Louise Brown
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
- Warren Buffett
I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.
- Julian Castro
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.
- Sarah Chalke
I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
- Chevy Chase
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
- Joan Collins
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
- John Green
Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
- They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.
- Firoozeh Dumas
I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis.... The steady stoicism of my parents.... Candlelit vigils.... And finally, my glorious resurrection.
- Joe Dunthorne
MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, "I'm going to be your surgeon? I'm here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?" Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
- Tina Fey
The thing of it was that the girls in my class who date boys do hardly anything else. Girls who I used to think were just boring I now think stupid beyond belief. I call them A-Girls and it is not a compliment.
- Garret Freymann Weyr
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
- Jean Paul Gaultier
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
- Nikki Giovanni
My classmates surround me as I sit in this folding chair. They laugh and hug one another and talk about how much they will miss each other once they're gone. And all I can think is that I have been gone for a long time, but none of them miss me.
- Amanda Grace
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
- Eva Green
And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
- Umberto Guidoni
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
- Scott Hamilton
This here be my class.-Sheila One Child
- Torey Hayden
I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.
- William Saroyan
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
- Marilu Henner
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
- Michael Imperioli
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
- James Earl Jones
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
- Mary Harris Jones
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
- Mother Jones
I went to a homosexual high school. I graduated top in my class. I couldn't imagine being on the bottom.
- Jarod Kintz
I remember in elementary school, Mother used to write my name on every single pair of my underwear. I guess she did that so none of my classmates would mistake my lunch for theirs.
- Jarod Kintz
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
- Sally Kellerman
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.
- Gelsey Kirkland
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
- John Knowles
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
- William Standish Knowles
At the prosecution table, Flagler gave me his Ivy League snicker. If I wanted, I could dangle him out the window by his ankles. But then, I was picking up penalties for late hits while he was singing tenor with the Whiffenpoofs. Okay, so I'm not Yale Law Review, but I'm proud of my diploma. University of Miami. Night division. Top half of the bottom third of my class.
- Paul Levine
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."
"You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"
"Well my mum's name is Helen..."
"Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?
- C S Lewis
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
- Norman Maccaig
Darling Daddy,
Poor Saffy. She had a big fight in the boys toilets on Monday, did you know? A very big fight and Sarah helped and it was terrifying. Said a boy in my class who has a brother who was there.
Saffy washed her hands and said Never Ever Never Dare You Touch My Brother. (Indigo). And the plug holes were blocked with hair.
Love from Rose.
-Sarah's mother has given us soup. Soup soup soup and then it was all gone.
L.F.R.
- Hilary Mckay
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
- Margaret Mead
These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.
- Lorrie Moore
3:12 pm
Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must I spend my days among them?' But have I ever said such things aloud? No. I have been nothing but generous to them, and kept these thoughts to myself.
And how have they repaid me? Have they been grateful or kind? Ho NO!
- Jaclyn Moriarty
I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.
- Dennis Muren
I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
- Petra Nemcova
I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out, Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?
- Katy Perry
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
- Emo Philips
Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.
- Amy Poehler
I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
- Natalie Portman
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
- Daniel Radcliffe
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
- Sally Ride
When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Maybe it was the noise that gave me a headache. Either that or it was punishment for enjoying the sound of my brother-in-law having what my classmates jokingly called an organism, but I was in too much pain to decide.
- Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
- Erno Rubik
He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us!
- David Sedaris
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
- Brooke Shields
Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.
- Joe Shuster
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
- R L Stine
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
- Pat Summitt
...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
- John Thorn
You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of my waking, Almaz rattling in the kitchen, my work, my classes, my rounds with the senior students. Seeing you and Shiva at dinner, then going to sleep with my wife...I want my days to be that way.
- Abraham Verghese
The baby went without a name for weeks. Mom said she wanted to study it first, the way she would the subject of a painting. We had a lot of arguments over what the name should be. I wanted to call her Rosita, after the prettiest girl in my class, but Mom said the name was too Mexican.
"I thought we weren't supposed to be prejudiced," I said.
"It's not being prejudiced," Mom said. "It's a matter of accuracy in labeling.
- Jeannette Walls
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
- Philip Zimbardo
Now what am I supposed to say to that?
"What do you have to say for yourself?"
Friggin' mind reader.
- Randa Abdel Fattah
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
- Gracie Allen
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
- Dorothy Allison
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
- Malcolm Arnold
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
- Rowan Atkinson
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
- Paul Auster
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
- Sergey Brin
Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.
- Po Bronson
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
- Louise Brown
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
- Warren Buffett
I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.
- Julian Castro
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.
- Sarah Chalke
I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
- Chevy Chase
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
- Joan Collins
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
- John Green
Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
- They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.
- Firoozeh Dumas
I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis.... The steady stoicism of my parents.... Candlelit vigils.... And finally, my glorious resurrection.
- Joe Dunthorne
MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, "I'm going to be your surgeon? I'm here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?" Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
- Tina Fey
The thing of it was that the girls in my class who date boys do hardly anything else. Girls who I used to think were just boring I now think stupid beyond belief. I call them A-Girls and it is not a compliment.
- Garret Freymann Weyr
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
- Jean Paul Gaultier
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
- Nikki Giovanni
My classmates surround me as I sit in this folding chair. They laugh and hug one another and talk about how much they will miss each other once they're gone. And all I can think is that I have been gone for a long time, but none of them miss me.
- Amanda Grace
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
- Eva Green
And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
- Umberto Guidoni
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
- Scott Hamilton
This here be my class.-Sheila One Child
- Torey Hayden
I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.
- William Saroyan
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
- Marilu Henner
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
- Michael Imperioli
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
- James Earl Jones
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
- Mary Harris Jones
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
- Mother Jones
I went to a homosexual high school. I graduated top in my class. I couldn't imagine being on the bottom.
- Jarod Kintz
I remember in elementary school, Mother used to write my name on every single pair of my underwear. I guess she did that so none of my classmates would mistake my lunch for theirs.
- Jarod Kintz
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
- Sally Kellerman
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.
- Gelsey Kirkland
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
- John Knowles
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
- William Standish Knowles
At the prosecution table, Flagler gave me his Ivy League snicker. If I wanted, I could dangle him out the window by his ankles. But then, I was picking up penalties for late hits while he was singing tenor with the Whiffenpoofs. Okay, so I'm not Yale Law Review, but I'm proud of my diploma. University of Miami. Night division. Top half of the bottom third of my class.
- Paul Levine
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."
"You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"
"Well my mum's name is Helen..."
"Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?
- C S Lewis
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
- Norman Maccaig
Darling Daddy,
Poor Saffy. She had a big fight in the boys toilets on Monday, did you know? A very big fight and Sarah helped and it was terrifying. Said a boy in my class who has a brother who was there.
Saffy washed her hands and said Never Ever Never Dare You Touch My Brother. (Indigo). And the plug holes were blocked with hair.
Love from Rose.
-Sarah's mother has given us soup. Soup soup soup and then it was all gone.
L.F.R.
- Hilary Mckay
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
- Margaret Mead
These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.
- Lorrie Moore
3:12 pm
Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must I spend my days among them?' But have I ever said such things aloud? No. I have been nothing but generous to them, and kept these thoughts to myself.
And how have they repaid me? Have they been grateful or kind? Ho NO!
- Jaclyn Moriarty
I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.
- Dennis Muren
I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
- Petra Nemcova
I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out, Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?
- Katy Perry
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
- Emo Philips
Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.
- Amy Poehler
I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
- Natalie Portman
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
- Daniel Radcliffe
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
- Sally Ride
When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Maybe it was the noise that gave me a headache. Either that or it was punishment for enjoying the sound of my brother-in-law having what my classmates jokingly called an organism, but I was in too much pain to decide.
- Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
- Erno Rubik
He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us!
- David Sedaris
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
- Brooke Shields
Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.
- Joe Shuster
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
- R L Stine
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
- Pat Summitt
...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
- John Thorn
You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of my waking, Almaz rattling in the kitchen, my work, my classes, my rounds with the senior students. Seeing you and Shiva at dinner, then going to sleep with my wife...I want my days to be that way.
- Abraham Verghese
The baby went without a name for weeks. Mom said she wanted to study it first, the way she would the subject of a painting. We had a lot of arguments over what the name should be. I wanted to call her Rosita, after the prettiest girl in my class, but Mom said the name was too Mexican.
"I thought we weren't supposed to be prejudiced," I said.
"It's not being prejudiced," Mom said. "It's a matter of accuracy in labeling.
- Jeannette Walls
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
- Philip Zimbardo
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