Textbook Quotes
83 quotes by 79 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you’re going to be an entrepreneur… it’s not all textbook. It’s gut feeling, it’s intuition, it’s a feeling you have that you can do…
— Wayne Huizenga
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I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.
— Joshua Lederberg
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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
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Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life — don't let the moments slip through your…
— Richie Sambora
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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
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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
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Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow…
— Tim Tharp
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The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.
— Noah Webster
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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
Who Wrote These Textbook Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 83 Textbook Quotes, led by these top contributors: