Yearbook Quotes

• It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

  John Bytheway

  Forever, Lasts, Popularity

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• So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Artist, Phones, Editors

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• Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

  John Bytheway

  Forever, Popularity, Ends

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• In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

  2 Chainz

  Chains, Grades

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Book, School, Trying

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• Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that Hunter Publishing had the art director, David Kaestle, and I come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girl, Art, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody's dad. And when his children look at his yearbook photograph, they will think that their dad was rugged and handsome and looked a lot happier than they are. I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Running, Dad, Children

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Two, People

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.119, Portobello Books

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• I think my favorite thing is when people send me Instagram photos of people's yearbooks, and one guy will put "Are you calling me a liar?," and his friend will have "I ain't calling you a truther." And those are people's actual yearbook quotes. That's so amazing.

  Drake Bell

  Liars, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.

  Matthew Zapruder

  School, Thinking, Here I Am

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, School, Editing

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• It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

  John Cusack

  School, Hair, Looks

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• I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Hard Times, Thinking, Opening Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

  Nick Cannon

  Attitude, Father, Years

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• I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.

  Bill Watterson

  School, Kids, College

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.

  Ronnie Shakes

  Teenager, School, Boys

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• I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

  Chris Rock

  School, Loner, Three

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• I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

  Cecily Strong

  School, Middle, Persons

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• I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  School, Church, Pages

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• I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.

  Lucy Hale

  Home, Schooled

  "What Was Lucy Hale Like When She Was 17?". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 22, 2013.

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• I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by goddamned yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

  A.S. King

  Life, Mean, Loss

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• There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

  Brian Greene

  College, Rooms, Dorms

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

  Gayle Forman

  School, Ideas, Watches

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.16, Penguin

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• I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas, but I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

  Dianna Agron

  School, Hair, Musical

  "HitFix Interview the Cast of 'Glee'". Interview with Daniel Fienbeg, api.hitfix.com. May 19, 2009.

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• I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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