#textbook

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#bother #conventions #even #publishers #textbook

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#buried #during #environment #head #judy

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. ↗

— Keith Richards

#had #how #invent #life #machinery

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anything #become #called #campaigning #columnist

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#before #came #class #conduct #course

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

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

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#american #feminine #friends #gained #here

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#great #historical #knowledge #literature #people

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

— John Pople

#cover #discarded #found #i #read