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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.
high-school age emotion
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. W. Somerset Maugham
sparks energy efficiency
Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you. David Seabury
sparks redemption speech
Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.... Denise Levertov
sparks congress court
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings. Ben Stein
sparks spirit manifestation
The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. Arthur Young
sparks moments eternity
Every moment contains a spark of eternity. Elie Wiesel
sparks wanted
He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life. Alice Munro
sparks rage inferno
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno Cindy Sheehan
sparks
That was one of the sparks for the show itself.
sparks polytheism nations
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism. Immanuel Kant