Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McEnroe

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Barry Long

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

ASAP Ferg

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Clayton Christensen

Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.

D. A. Carson

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

David Foster

Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

Cory Monteith

Fox taught me how to sing and dance

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Douglas Coupland

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Chuck Palahniuk

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

Angelina Jolie

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

Alvin Dark

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Anthony de Mello

Wisdom can be learned . But it cannot be taught .

Anna Louise Strong

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

Allyson Schwartz

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Christopher Gorham

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

Jimmy Johnson

It didn't have anything to do with him being elected. It wasn't something that he was taught to do. It was something that he had in him.

He was the one that taught me that women can fight.

Anthony Swofford

He taught me how to read as a writer,

Kobe Bryant

He taught me how to play the game. He's the coach, I'm the player, ... We don't think we're going to have any problems.

Thomas Moore

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

Bill Viola

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

What she taught you was, if you didn't want to know an answer, don't ask,

William Cowper

With outstretched hoe I slew him at the door, / And taught him NEVER TO COME THERE NO MORE.

Robert B. Parker

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

Orson Scott Card

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

E. B. White

We wanted to be up to par. That's one of the things Scotty taught us over the years. We've got to play together to have success.

Billy Graham

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Izabella Scorupco

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks.