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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.
oxford black clubs
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them. Anthony Trollope
oxford small town
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. Samantha Shannon
oxford ferrets branches
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. Ashley Madekwe
oxford differences sick
There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all ... Barbara Pym
oxford long firsts
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. David Bowie
oxford challenges married
While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002. Anne Fortier
oxford
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. Max Beerbohm
oxford ready state wants wednesday
We are going to be ready for Wednesday night. We know it's going to be tough. Oxford wants to go back to the state meet. We want to get there because we've never been. I know they are going to be ready for us and we will be ready for them. B. F. Skinner
oxford leisure dignity
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. Henry James
students sometimes poet
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this. Edward Hirsch
students
I've always loved being a student. Elizabeth Olsen
students hard
It's very hard to remain a student in life. Carol Kane
students significant aids
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions. Bob Inglis
students
We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.
students three year
Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.
students wonder enough
One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education. Jane Jacobs
students impossible affair
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. Jan Morris
students unhappy
There are unhappy parents, students and staff. The only ones who are happy are the administration.