Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.

Lloyd Alexander

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Forever
  • Between
  • Secretary

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Long
  • Wine
  • Trail

• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Great
  • City
  • New York

• I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Actor

• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Wise
  • Show

• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

  Ovid
  • Others
  • Crop
  • Heavier

• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Voice

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• I'd like to be more spontaneous.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Like
  • More
  • Spontaneous

• I'm a serial monogamist.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Serial

• There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Want
  • Space
  • Decision

• So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Like
  • Using
  • Tribe

• Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

  

  Kevin James
  • Hope
  • Teacher
  • Chance

• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Matter

• We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Why
  • Simple
  • Study

• Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Learning
  • Study