Matt Bellamy Quotes

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal'.

I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

I'm so grounded, it's sad.

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I was in detention a lot.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.

You would think, because I stayed to myself and I was shy, that I'd be a good student, but actually, I was a bad student. I was in detention a lot, mainly for cutting, being late to class. I was in tardy hall a lot. I hate the idea of homework. I don't get it.

When I was at school, I got into trouble quite often.

Never was I allowed to miss school.

I'm all about penalizing. I've got no issue with penalizing people who are taking over their allotted time.

"All roads lead there child. You should know that." "Detention?"

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?