Quotes of: Secondary-school Keyword

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

Joy School

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

King Dork

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

South of Broad

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

Set in Darkness

The forest, like a casino, always wins. That's why you should never gamble, or enter the forest. And above all, never underestimate Schmidty.

School of Fear

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

Skeleton Key

When Mikolay and Julia are not at school, they usually go exploring and adventuring. Mikolay’s and Julia’s mummies are both witches and are in charge of fixing things.

Mikolay and Julia Meet the Fairies

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.

Night Road

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

The Nick Adams Stories

The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.

Speak

Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

Strong Poison

I dropped out of school in the fourth grade to work in a shoe factory before I took up farming. I grew salmon—on trees.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Are you saying that being a criminal is a matter of opinion?" I asked. Qwerty smiled, but it was sad around the edges. "No," he said. "It's a matter of handcuffs.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

I’m going to strip my way through plumber’s school. What do you think of the stage name Fine-Ass Frankie?

Plucking Cupid's Bow

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Pieces of White Shell

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

Paper Towns