In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. – Dave Barry
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play. – Gary Burton
Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world’s most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful. – Elliott Abrams
I have a weak spot for late ’60s-early ’70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is ‘Right On,’ a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics. – Doug Aitken
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. – Marilyn Hacker
Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio. – Francis Ford Coppola
I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected. – Gary Johnson
My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I’ve had all four of his kids on the show. – Dick Van Dyke
The message from the Technion when I was a student was: ‘You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.’ – Dan Shechtman
Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests. – Pankaj Mishra
I don’t dispute the accounts of My Lai 4, but I think that anyone who is a student of the war, or anyone who was there, would agree that anything you could imagine happening probably happened. – Michael Cimino
Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven’t read, but over the years I’ve come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. – Elisabeth Shue
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. – Charles Kendall Adams
There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen’s wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans’ use of the Pacific for nuclear testing. – Martha Smith
The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his or her class. – Catherine Asaro
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. – Christina Hoff Sommers
And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed – to be a student again. – David Steinberg
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. – Edward Zwick
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student’s wall, then you’re in a very enviable position. I’d like to do a Damien Hirst for รด?500 at some point. – Damien Hirst
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. – Eminem
If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do. – Eileen Myles
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. – M. H. Abrams
Just as I never liked bumper stickers – even though I do brake for animals, and if I had a kid, she would definitely be an honor student – I don’t like the idea of expressing my views through social-media-controlled rainbow-or-anything-else-ification. – Meghan Daum
When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew. – Evan Osnos
I just want to go to university and have fun – I want to be an ordinary student. I’m only going to university. It’s not like I’m getting married – though that’s what it feels like sometimes. – Prince William
Good dental care doesn’t make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it’s hard to be a good student. – Geoffrey Canada
Harlem was an exciting place in the ’50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still. – David Levering Lewis
You know, it’s been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher. – Dave Eggers