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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.
caught letting stick turning wrong
We started slow, and they caught us off-guard a lot. It was all about us turning it up and not letting them stick around because we could end up on the wrong end. Steve Foley
caught defensive guess point score trying
We are a defensive team, but I guess at one point we got caught up trying to score with them.
caught couple heard settled talking trash tune
Where I've come from, I've heard trash talking before. Once we settled down, once we caught a couple passes, you kind of tune that out.
caught hitting nights shoot six tube turn
When you turn on the tube you see him hitting six 3s in a game, so you know he can shoot the ball. And this was just one of those nights when he caught fire. Gilbert Arenas
caught guy guys post recruit sign
We're not going to sign a post guy just because he's a post guy, ... Too many times, guys get caught up in, 'I have to have this.' You have to recruit players.
caught thrown mines
Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch.... Denzel Washington
caught being-bad
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it. Benjamin Spock
caught gets mesmerized rhythm sit starts watch worst
When he gets into a rhythm like that where he starts going, it's like you want to sit there and watch him play. You get caught up in what he does and that's probably the worst thing that we can do is just sit there and watch him play, but you get mesmerized by what he's doing. Tim Duncan
caught hole void
Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire. Josh Fox
subjects
I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history. Bruno Tonioli
subjects picks ifs
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer. Barry White
subjects
Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them. Elizabeth Bowen
subjects known all-things
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject. Arthur Schopenhauer
subjects
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Annie Dillard
subjects throughout wellbeing
The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.
subjects
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. John Donne
subjects
Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. Henry Morton Stanley
subjects
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women Frank Sinatra