Rick Perlstein Quotes

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

I used to spend countless days in my teenage years keeping scorecards, playing cricket and just enjoying myself with friends and having the occasional shandy in the bar.

I crushed high school. I was a huge dork.

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.