Textbook Quotes

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence. - Katherine Anne Porter

You can't be a professor and talk out of a textbook to teach locomotive operations. You can't create the end product without hands-on training. - Jeff Abbott

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

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. - Len Wein

With CDs and the extra material, really what's happening is that the cost of that is being built into the textbook, and then it's being bundled as a value add... If we try to buy only the textbook, we're paying as much as we would for the bundled material. - Mark Freed

Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion... This is not just my opinion, which I admit is biased. This is a view that is shared throughout INS and by your peers in other law enforcement agencies, far and wide, here and abroad. They have described Operation Reunion as a textbook example of operations preparation and execution. It also proved to be the pivotal step in closing one of the most difficult chapters in the history of INS work. - Doris Meissner

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong. - Diane Ravitch

When you feel you're going to put runs on the board it helps... Tonight offensively was textbook. It was just a real good game for us. - Andy Pettitte

When we textbooks, they come with content we can't deliver. - Bob McDonough

When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about. - Paul Larsen