#textbook

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers. ↗

— Hope Davis

#cities #country #different #discover #fascinating

Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#dogma #foreign #foreign policy #gives #how

I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead #fish #funny #humor #prostitutes

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#by the time #i #studying #textbooks #time

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#economists #even #fish #get #grocery

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey. ↗

— John Hope

#get #glories #go #into #journey

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

#depths #explore #glories #go #into

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you. ↗

— Stan Getz

#listen #musicians #play #read #records

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. ↗

— John Pople

#cover #discarded #found #i #read

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#soviet #textbooks