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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that. -- Bear Grylls
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model. -- Dan Rosensweig
Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization. -- Suzy Kassem
Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!" -- Bear Grylls
As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.] -- Judith Lewis Herman
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. -- Ralph Abernathy
I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself. -- Rachel Zoe
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. -- John Pople
A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't. -- Clive Thompson
For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book. -- Osman Rashid
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. -- Eli Broad
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
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
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
Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real. -- Tim Burton
I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're working with your own hands. There's essential satisfaction in running experiments. -- Eric Kandel
Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook. -- Mary Roach
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy. -- Adam Hamilton
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. -- Jonathan Kozol
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. -- Bill Gates
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say, 'This week, this might happen,' and it kind of does. I had typical nausea the first trimester, which was no fun. And extreme tiredness. -- Anna Silk
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
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
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. -- Siri Hustvedt
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When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers. -- John Madden
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. -- Art Spiegelman
Religion is textbook, Spirituality is soul work. -- Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
Religion is textbook, Spirituality is soul work. -- Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player. -- George W. Bush
The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields. -- Noah Webster
Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook -- Richie Sambora
All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron. -- J. K. Rowling
Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. -- James W. Loewen
I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook. -- Joshua Lederberg
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook. -- Laura Anne Gilman
What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook? -- Neal Shusterman
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. -- Herman Melville
The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask. -- Eoin Colfer
It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. -- James J. Kilpatrick
Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook. -- Kiersten White
The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it. -- Ronald Reagan
According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease. -- Richard Lindzen
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west. -- James W. Loewen
Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices. -- Osman Rashid
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear. -- James Surowiecki
Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned! -- Lauren Kate
Look, I think the notion that theres 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
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
Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed. -- Khaled Hosseini
How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it. -- Neal Shusterman
Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable. -- Paul Ryan
What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time. -- James W. Loewen
The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it. -- Martha Stewart
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work. -- James Meade
I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy? -- Cassandra Clare
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context. -- Ashraf Ghani
Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won. -- Joan Bauer
The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to personal growth, and lessons in personal actualization. The bible is a spiritual masterpiece. -- John Fante

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