Paul Laffoley Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

  Paul Laffoley

  School, Worry, Say Anything

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

• [My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard Business School. And he was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, which I am, too, because what I did is... I have the same name as my father, only Jr.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, School, Class

• As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my mother didn't want me to go to school too soon. Because I would be beaten to a pulp, you know, if I walked down the street and said there was no such thing as gravity.

  Paul Laffoley

  Mother, School, Kids

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

• I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to the store? And I was saying, Oh God, I want to learn something else. I wanted to learn to read and write better and do mathematics better. They were very much into Abstract Expressionism and that artsy stuff. And where most kids did what I call meaningless blobs, I could render perfectly.

  Paul Laffoley

  Kids, Writing, School

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

• I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things.

  Paul Laffoley

  Kids, School, Lunch

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

• Eventually, to get through school, I would make good meaningless blobs if I had to. And so they thought I was falling in with them and stuff like that. But on the playground, kids would come up to me and say, "I need three Supermans and a Captain Midnight by four o'clock because I'm going to sell them to somebody else." So I'd take all their lunch money and whip these things out, and they'd have to stick them in their underwear to get the pictures home, because if the teacher ever found out about that.

  Paul Laffoley

  Teacher, Fall, School

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

• I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time.

  Paul Laffoley

  School, Waste, Wasting Time

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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