Textbook Quotes

83 quotes by 79 authors

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the… — Tim Burton
According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease. — Richard Lindzen
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can… — John Dewey
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no… — Edith Hamilton
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and… — Margot Livesey
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated… — Randall Balmer
The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to… — George W. Bush
China has been a textbook case of how the government did just enough intervention to increase penetration, but the reality is that it isn't going… — Michael Clarke Duncan
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition… — Igor Stravinsky
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and… — Mitch Daniels
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence,… — James Surowiecki
If youâ€™re going to be an entrepreneurâ€¦ itâ€™s not all textbook. Itâ€™s gut feeling, itâ€™s intuition, itâ€™s a feeling you have that you can do… — Wayne Huizenga
I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook. — Joshua Lederberg
The word detox does not appear in the main textbook on cancer or the main medical textbook...the word in medicine refers to heroin addicts and… — Ralph W. Moss
Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life â€” don't let the moments slip through your… — Richie Sambora
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia;… — Ashraf Ghani
To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that… — Janusz Korczak
Beautyâ€™s all around me right here. Itâ€™s not in a textbook. Itâ€™s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight â€¦ The colors flow… — Tim Tharp
The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields. — Noah Webster
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's… — Herman Melville

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