Teach Quotes - Page 39

• Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wise, Dog, Sweet

  Ray Bradbury (1991). “On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays”, Plume

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• I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Reality, Law, Skills

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• The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

  Stephen King

  Long, Tricks, Wells

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Long, Would Be

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• If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Self, Faces, Facts

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Fun, People

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

  William Penn

  Family, Children, World

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Cutting, Thinking, Hair

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• If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Ifs

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.16, 1st World Publishing

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• It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

  John Irving

  Skills, People, Suffering

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• I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

  Paul Neilan

  Talking, Ideas, People

  Paul Neilan (2007). “Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Popular, You're gonna be Popular! I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to boys! Little ways to flirt and flounce! I'll show you what shoes to wear, how to fix your hair, everything that really counts, to be POPULAR!!

  Stephen Schwartz

  Flirting, Boys, Hair

  David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books

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• All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, World, Morality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

  Jacques Barzun

  Writing, Race, Political

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• ..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.

  Clive Barker

  Taken, World, Care

  Clive Barker (2009). “Mister B. Gone”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Trying, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her blazer pocket. "Look at him." "He's right here, Ri," Carla murmured, shooting Keenan an apologetic look. "We've tried to teach her manners, but..." She shrugged. "It's like housebreaking a dog. If we'd had her when she was a puppy, maybe." Rianne smacked her on the arm, but she was grinning. "Woof, woof.

  Melissa Marr

  Dog, Winning, Pockets

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• Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.145, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Autumn, Long, Water

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Parenting, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 21, 2011

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• How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?

  Don DeLillo

  Morning, Real, Night

  Don DeLillo, Mark Osteen (1998). “White Noise: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Rip, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.244, Bantam

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• A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

  Alexander Pope

  Prayer, Heart, Grace

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.121

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