Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

- Abraham Verghese

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.

- John Hurt

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

- Johann Lamont

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.

- Jeffrey Tate

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

- Mary Leakey

If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan