#boarding

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#boarding #boarding school #feel #felt #had

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. ↗

— Tony Hawk

#art #art form #consider #form #i

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#boarding #britain #diplomat #expected #fact

I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#call #director #doing #got #hear

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university. ↗

— Mark Shields

#both #england #families #house #men

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#boarding #boarding school #day #everyone #everything

From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny ability to capture the bewilderment and burgeoning anger of a boy struggling to remain true to himself while navigating the hypocritical system he finds himself trapped in … what makes Boy on a Wire much more than a bleak coming-of-age story is Doust’s sharp wit. “Justice not only prevails at Grammar School, it is rampant.” If you know an angry teenager, give this to him.’ — The Age ↗

— Jon Doust

#boy-on-a-wire #jon-doust #the-age #age

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard. ↗

— Scott Caan

#football #guess #hard #i #injured

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#even #grew #i #skateboarding #up

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#been #besides #boarding #boarding school #both