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school figures ifs
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
school hard-work church
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
school age taught
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore
school opportunity thinking
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school boys oxford
My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school exercise keys
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. Alan Alda
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
swings giving reason
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. Charles Caleb Colton
swings band drummer
But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band. Buddy Rich
swings common-sense optimism
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail. Charles Krauthammer
swings giving stealing
That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it? Eddie Izzard
swings gone problem
I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone. David Duval
swings knows
Swing your swing. I know, I did. Arnold Palmer
swings pendulums
Politics swings like a pendulum. Ed Gillespie
swings bats aggressive
I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat. Carlos Beltran
swings use care
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music. Charlie Parker
dragons shields protect
If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away? Bryan Davis
dragons golden fruit
Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard. William Shakespeare
dragons benefits might
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely. Alan Turing
dragons interesting personality
But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them Diana Wynne Jones
dragons snakes littles
I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes. Don Bluth
dragons film animated
Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.
dragons house legs
There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it. Arthur Miller
dragons fruit juice
When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this. Aristotle
dragons years going-out
At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon. Aaron Broussard