#tea

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#advance #assure #disappoint #doomed #failure

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#children #classroom #common #common sense #dollars

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#eyes #fire #form #heart #man

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#had #i #known #latin #my soul

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#committees #composition #hated #i #music

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. ↗

— Paul Berg

#career #considered #deciding #get #had

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#day #down #enough #exploding #had

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#god #teaching #war #way

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#five #hours #increased #just #percent