I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.
RihannaI do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.
David BowieI’ve worked with children all my life.
Denzel WashingtonI think who you are in school really sticks with you.
Taylor SwiftThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.
Jeff BezosThe schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.
Will RogersThe book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
ConfuciusThe instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
VoltaireI go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert FrostI’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.
Karl LagerfeldWhat do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John RuskinIn terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
Lady GagaThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William JamesThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James BaldwinIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
Jim CarreyI like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry PratchettUnderstand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
Barack ObamaI give the children education.
Jackie ChanEngineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Herbert HooverKnowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PlatoWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleI became a journalist because one didn’t have to specialise.
Christopher HitchensEducation is what you learn after you leave school.
Robert KiyosakiMy elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Benjamin FranklinEven with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.
Alice WalkerThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
DiogenesNo country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson MandelaReligion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
Dalai LamaMy husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Dolly PartonWe are all the President’s men.
Henry KissingerTo accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
EpictetusWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis BaconMy biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Steve JobsThe smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren BuffettIn fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.
LeBron JamesThe best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis BaconThe educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.
Mark TwainWhat we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen KellerBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark TwainIt’s cool to be recognised by your peers.
Frank OceanI’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.
Robert GreeneA free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert CamusNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SocratesMy priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
Haruki MurakamiWe can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.
Michelle ObamaI am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
RihannaWe are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin FranklinThe roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai LamaWith my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
Abraham MaslowFame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.
Marilyn MonroeConnectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill GatesIn the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanThe chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert FrostI’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
EminemIn almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.
Bill GatesWe love things we love what they are.
Robert Frost