#entice

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#apprenticeship #being #chance #got #half

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #greatest #had #men #serve

But...what if I mistime it?" Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders." Horace and Gilan ↗

— John Flanagan

#horace #humor #ranger-s-apprentice #sword-fighting #humor

Without thinking, [Will] spoke. 'Halt? Are you awake?' 'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. 'Oh. Sorry.' 'Shut up.' He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent. ↗

— John Flanagan

#ranger-s-apprentice #will #humor

What was that, Kurokuma?' asked one of the escorts riding near him. The others chuckled at the name. 'Nothing important,' Horace said. Then he looked at them suspiciously. 'What's this Kurokuma business?' The Senshi looked at him with a completely staight face. 'It's a term of great respect,' he said. Several others within earshot nodded confirmation. They too managed to remain straight-faced. It was a skill the Nihon-Jan had perfected. 'Great respect,' one of them echoed. ↗

— John Flanagan

#ranger-s-apprentice #respect #business

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art. ↗

— Jane Rule

#apprenticeship #art #cut #forty #had

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. ↗

— Donald Trump

#consciously #expected #me #unconsciously #women