When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a… — Doris Roberts Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a… — Pete Goss Copy Share Image
I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or… — Toru Iwatani Copy Share Image
My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on… — Sally Kirkland Copy Share Image
Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience. — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men. — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
