As a country, we can't teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that's… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
School is about who you know, but I think it's a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that… — Tricky Copy Share Image
I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“In cyberspace, the rules of engagement favor introvert. We can connect while remaining alone. We can read and write rather than talk.… — Laurie A. Helgoe Copy Share Image
I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Licking a 9-volt battery, learning to whittle, riding a bicycle, climbing trees: we may not see these as necessities like learning to… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“She wouldn’t open her heart to me, because she’d know someone else would read the letter and learn her secrets. And I… — Lena Manta Copy Share Image
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“A driving snow-storm in the night and still raging; five or six inches deep on a level at 7 A.M. All birds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“That was when I still had a mother who taught me to read and write; who handled books with care, saying they… — Agustina Bazterrica Copy Share Image
I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
“Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Now I know Hindi, and I can read and write Hindi, but the problem is that I can't improvise when I am… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
“Christianity,” Jones wrote, “encourages and orders” African people “to become more humble and better servants.” They should not learn to read and… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
In our schools, they're supposed to be taught to read and write and do mathematics. We are supposed to be teaching them… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“During Mao’s era, the Chinese people were absolutely controlled by the Communist Party that decided food and accommodation, education and employment, what… — Zoë S. Roy Copy Share Image
I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
