Study Quotes
3900 quotes by 2652 authors
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Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some…
— Louisa May Alcott
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PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things…
— Gene Roddenberry
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You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one.…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa
— Richelle Mead
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I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out…
— David Foster Wallace
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I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home.…
— Cecelia Ahern
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The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of…
— Barack Obama
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Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet…
— Henry Van Dyke
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We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
— Edward Said
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You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video…
— Ned Vizzini
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When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects…
— Brigham Young
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And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage…
— Shane Koyczan
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Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her bag, ripped off a sliver…
— Ally Carter
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I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life…
— George Eliot
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Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to…
— David Nicholls
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other Âpeople. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic –…
— P.D. James
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