Textbook Quotes

83 Textbook quotes by 77 unique authors

The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the… — Miriam Toews
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his… — C.S. Lewis
The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful… — Rick Riordan
Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book… — Lauren Kate
How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing,… — Neal Shusterman
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem.… — Jay Asher
What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook? — Neal Shusterman
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook. — Laura Anne Gilman
Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who… — Khaled Hosseini
Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great… — Mitch Albom
Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook. — Kiersten White
For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who… — Libba Bray
I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what… — John Green
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line… — James W. Loewen
Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ… — Carrie Fisher
For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a… — Osman Rashid
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was… — John Madden
Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model. — Dan Rosensweig
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of… — Siri Hustvedt
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. — John Pople
As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the… — Marlee Matlin
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a… — Eli Broad
IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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