#cher

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#becoming #day #fantasy #i #involved

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. ↗

— Nate Silver

#high #improve #most #overcome #pitcher

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. ↗

— Nina Simone

#concert #concert pianist #dedicate #his #i

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#answer #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #few

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#after #ever #ever after #fairy #fairy tales

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. ↗

— Adam Smith

#baker #benevolence #butcher #dinner #expect

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. ↗

— Huston Smith

#celtic #could #language #onto #opens

I wanted to be a ballet teacher. ↗

— Jaclyn Smith

#i #teacher #wanted