Textbook Quotes

83 Textbook quotes by 77 unique authors

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating… — Hope Davis
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical… — Peter Agre
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither… — Adam Hamilton
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has… — Dean H. Kenyon
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It… — James Meade
You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may… — Frederick Lenz
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making… — Diane Ravitch
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress… — H P Lovecraft
Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel… — Bear Grylls
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like… — Bear Grylls
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of… — Jonathan Kozol
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in… — Frances O'Grady
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you… — Keith Richards
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly… — Karl Rove
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned… — Carl Sandburg
I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself. — Rachel Zoe
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took… — Richard Peck
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed… — Umberto Eco
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. — Herman Melville
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full… — Joan Bauer
I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really,… — Cassandra Clare
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm… — Bill Bryson
All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask. — Eoin Colfer
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook… — Osip Mandelstam

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