All Quotes

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
‐‐ Jackson Browne

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.
‐‐ Jerry Hunt

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.
‐‐ Stefon Harris

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
‐‐ Rebecca Makkai

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
‐‐ John le Carre

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
‐‐ Sally Kirkland

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
‐‐ Ed Bradley

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
‐‐ James Brown

I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
‐‐ Sally Mann

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.
‐‐ Jo Beverley

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
‐‐ Cheryl Strayed

I taught world history. I understand there was an Ice Age... seasons come and seasons go. I do not believe the world's going to end because of the 2 percent man-made greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. And even if it were, we're not going to stop it.
‐‐ John Shimkus

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.
‐‐ Paula Fox

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads.
‐‐ Josh Pais

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!
‐‐ Paul Schrader

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so this is their one shot. They'll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.
‐‐ Robert Hass

I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.
‐‐ Cristina Henriquez

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

I teach at Caltech and oversee a research laboratory there. In general, I find that the majority of young people are excited by the prospects of research, but they soon discover that in the current market, many doctorate-level scientists are holding temporary positions or are unemployed.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
‐‐ Oscar Hijuelos

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
‐‐ Josiah Royce

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
‐‐ Robert Scheer

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
‐‐ Leonard Maltin

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
‐‐ Mark Morris

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.
‐‐ Stephen Frears

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
‐‐ Toby Jones

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
‐‐ Jess Walter

I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.
‐‐ Michael Porter

I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.
‐‐ George Foreman

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
‐‐ Della Reese

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.
‐‐ Drew Lachey

I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
‐‐ BeBe Winans

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
‐‐ Art Garfunkel

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'
‐‐ Kurt Angle

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
‐‐ Mackenzie Astin

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.
‐‐ Luke Ford

I tell a good story.
‐‐ Phyllis A. Whitney

I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.
‐‐ Tyler Posey

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.
‐‐ Roma Downey

I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'
‐‐ Iman