W. C. Sellar Quotes

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

W. C. Sellar

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• I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Individual

• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Society
  • Diversity
  • Ethnic

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Variety

• I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Car
  • Fast

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.

  

  Haley Webb
  • Work
  • House
  • Man

• I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Dream

• If the GOP wants to know why it lost the Reagan Democrats, it is because the GOP exported their jobs to Mexico and China.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Know
  • Lost

• An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

  

  Vanity
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Affects

• I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Friends
  • Friend

• I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Popular
  • Tough
  • Frankly

• There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Long
  • Peace
  • Moments

• I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Feel

• The group is only interested in the formal publishing of individuals for the purpose of establishing their social solidarity.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Purpose

• If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by the eye alone, since the human glance is usually a momentary one.

  

  Dawoud Bey
  • Believe
  • Humans
  • Representation

• I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

  

  Adelaide Clemens

• Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they’re there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.

  

  Ian Lawton
  • Why
  • House
  • Door

• I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

  

  W. C. Sellar