Flunking Quotes

• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  Walker Percy

  Education, School, Life Learning

  "Don't Overdo Graduation Speech". www.altoonamirror.com. May 24, 2015.

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

  Erma Bombeck

  Fashion, Design, Literature

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• I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Teacher, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

  Fanny Fern

  Sex, Food, Heart

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.32, Rutgers University Press

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• I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Truth Is, Admire

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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• That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Writing, School, High School

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2017

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• See, Sway, that’s what you get for flunking your pilot’s test six times…which I’m pretty sure is a record of some sort. If not for the actual flunking, definitely for the persistence in pursuing that which you obviously have no talent for. Personally, I wouldn’t let you fly a remote-control kid’s plane. (Vik) Shut up before I find a can opener. (Sway)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Persistence, Records

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.35, Macmillan

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• We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Horrible, Happens

  Daniel Handler (2012). “The Basic Eight”, p.226, Allison & Busby

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• How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, War, People

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• The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Teacher, Students, Very Good

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• Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

  Al Yankovic

  Boys, Games, Nuclear

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• So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Army, College, Years

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• Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction." I gathered that." Step stool, encyclopedias, floor." I see. Well, I can't thank you enough." Sure you can. Help me flunk enough tests, so I drop out of the 'torian range." Can't you just tell Abernethy that you have a reputation as a dumbshit to keep up, and you don't want the attention?" Flunking is more fun.

  Lisa McMann

  Fun, Steps, Attention

  "Fade". Book by Lisa McMann, 2009.

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• The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.

  John C. Dvorak

  Wall, College, Nuts

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