Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

Cole Porter

You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.

Clarence Thomas

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

Colin Firth

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Dan Simmons

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

Cynthia Voigt

I love teaching; I love little kids.

Cynthia Ozick

Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such naive readers testifies to a failure of imagination - the capacity to see into unfamiliar lives, motives, feelings - and this failure must, at least in part, be the failure of the teaching of literature in the schools.

Corrie Ten Boom

The best learning I had came from teaching.

Cornelia Funke

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

Cormac McCarthy

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

Cormac McCarthy

Teaching writing is a hustle.

Robert Morgan

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Ram Dass

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

Kurt Vonnegut

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Kurt Vonnegut

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

William Shakespeare

It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.