#studying

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#even #get #half #money #nice

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse. ↗

— Thomas Wilson

#anyone #anything #being #hired #i

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#anything #before #college #comedic #drama

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#calculus #college #continue #encouraged #go

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#hate #i #learning #like #love

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#also #biologists #build #classify #common

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. ↗

— Jet Li

#buddhism #few #i #i do #in the past

Ah," Gary said dreamily. " 'Free time.' I've heard about that. Don't fool yourself, Fire-Top. What with extra hours of lessons for punishments, and the extra work you get every day, free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. We all face up to it sooner or later--the only real free time you get here is what my honored sire chooses to give you, when he thinks you have earned it." "And he doesn't give it to you at night," Alex put in. "He gives it to you when you've been here awhile, on Market Day and sometimes a morning or afternoon all to yourself. But never at night. At night you study. During the day you study. In your sleep-- ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#free-time #studying #work #dreams

From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

#japanese #japanese-literature #studying #japan

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cooking #cuisines #cultures #curiosity #guest