Textbook Quotations

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.

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.

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.

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.

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.

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.

My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.

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.

I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.

I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow Him. And 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.

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.

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.

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.

Let's just say there is not another dime coming from anywhere (for bilingual education). I want you to imagine the waste of money when you put a child in the classroom and that child doesn't understand the teacher, the textbook or the test. You are actually increasing an underclass who can't contribute to the economic strength of society.

My first book deal was actually for a textbook - 'Judo and You' - that I wrote while teaching at Temple University. A scout for Kendall-Hunt came looking for someone to write the book, and even though it wasn't a course I was teaching there, I agreed to write it.

Music was a big part of our friendship, but it wasn't the only part. Danny was the textbook definition of the term 'good friend.' He would do anything for you. Anyone who knew Danny knew this and knew the kind, gentle spirit he possessed ... The world lost a good one today, and I am deeply saddened by it.

China has been a textbook case of how the government did just enough intervention to increase penetration, but the reality is that it isn't going to work for all countries in the same way. Culture always plays a role and you can't necessarily take what worked in one market and automatically make it work somewhere else.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television.

There are students who really look forward to being able to see the blending of reality and theory ... meaning, making whatever you read in the textbook plain by giving everyday illustrations that you can relate to.

I saw myself as a facilitator. They knew specifically what freedom of speech was -- they could give you the textbook definition -- they had never had the opportunity to practice it.

I reviewed the textbook and I liked what I saw. I saw an academic text that steers clear of being a devotional text.

Our research with young people shows that they really prefer experiential learning, which means they prefer to hear from someone who was there (about) what it was like, rather than read about it from a textbook or communicated by a third party. They remember more and understand it much more.

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.

Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

textbook definition of the term 'good friend.' He would do anything for you.

We have overfed Europe with oil. Every economics textbook says that surplus supply lowers prices. But we can't reduce supply -- all our exports are oriented toward Europe.

We got off to a textbook first period, played the way we wanted. Unfortunately, for some reason we sat back and it definitely was not the way we wanted to end that game.

We were able to work together and accomplish a whole lot. It's a textbook example of a joint effort between members of both parties in the legislative and executive branch coming together to help a region.

We are encouraging personal meetings and small group discussions between faculty and the textbook representatives at every opportunity.

Tuition, housing fees, even textbook costs are difficult to meet these days. Why Congress feels the need to cut student loans and drag our faces in the mud, I do not know.

This type of violation should be a textbook example of an impeachment issue because not only is it a federal crime, but it violates the doctrine of separation of powers.

This sort of activity hardly looks like a lucky buyer but is textbook insider-buying activity. I'd say somebody ... alerted somebody, who then acted on the information.

Cover the Uninsured Week provides students with unique opportunities to tell our leaders that health care coverage must be a top priority. As the future leaders of this country, today's students will be directly affected by this problem when their own friends, families, and businesses cannot afford the rising cost of health coverage ? and join the ranks of the uninsured as a result. How to provide affordable, consistent care for the uninsured is not taught in any textbook or classroom. We are grateful that students and their teachers are using their energy and activism to spread the word that every man, woman, and child in America must have health care coverage and our leaders must take action.

Focusing on technological convergence is now textbook stuff that is done throughout Europe, and highlighting business clients is nearly a must, with competitors having announced they want to move into this space. The third 'pillar', the expansion in new area's, can mean almost anything.

There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

There's just no textbook for this. Nobody's ever been through anything like this.

The traditional textbook will always have a place on the shelf just as it has for hundreds of years. This product is about choice for students, providing them a less expensive price.

I upgraded CN based on the news. Now they can stick to knitting, concentrate on what they do best, running a classic textbook railroad.

These are textbook Santa Ana winds. The South Bay is not located below passes and canyons. You don't have to be right below to get it, but aligned.

The Stock Market Game is important. It gives students a real-life connection to economics instead of being in a textbook all the time.

The third quarter was a clinic. To hold the other team to no points, to only have two turnovers and outscore them 14-0, that's a textbook game. The defense was so good. There were several plays where we completely disrupted their offense.

A number of schools already have a textbook committee. Citrus needs one also.

This is a rough story for journalists to cover because your journalism textbook has to take a back seat to your moral compass, and the coverage is visceral because of this. When people beg Chris Lawrence for help, they're forcing him to be not just a spectator but a reluctant leader.

This is a pair of programs where the public is the main winner. The genome has been compared to a textbook, and what we're talking about today is an opportunity to learn how to read that textbook in a more precise way.

This is the first student textbook we've had that is both constitutional and age appropriate.

There weren't enough tapes. It was a textbook example of how having a better machine doesn't guarantee success. The best platform in the world is not going to be bought by a large number of people unless there are a large number of games to be played on it.

A textbook on psychosomatic gynecology published in 1957 stated that women had neither the interest in nor the capacity for orgasmic response!

A textbook is essential to uphold the First Amendment, ... There's been nothing cast in this direction until now.

A textbook has a very short life. I'm sure they have compensated for that.

a textbook case for undue influence in will executions.

It was a textbook situation, when you buy on rumor and sell on the fact.

It's a weekend course. It's usually a Friday night, all-day Saturday and half-day Sunday deal. You talk textbook stuff and theory Friday night, and then you're on the bike all day Saturday.

It really looks like a textbook recovery to me.

Eating disorders are not always textbook things. They don't have a particular face.

The bond market reacted directly to the equities market, like a textbook example.

The bank of Canada is operating textbook econ 101 here in hiking rates in anticipation of inflation going higher 12-16 months in the future, because we're operating at full capacity right now in Canada and it looks like we're going to continue.

It's important to make sure (the gymnasts) don't get overconfident or too cocky or too arrogant. We've had teams in the past that would've responded to that (ranking), but these girls are not like that. They're very professional in their approach. It's been pretty much a textbook season in terms of us teaching and them responding.

It wasn't, certainly, a textbook game of basketball. This is the type of league ... it's going to be so hard to win on the road. I thought South Florida just had a great game plan, and really made it difficult for us to do anything.

It was probably a textbook example of what to do when an accident happens. She made sure all the students were OK, then she got up and made sure the children exited properly out of the back of the bus like they are supposed to and lined them off to the side in a safe area.

The two experiences are completely opposed. One is textbook on what to do with a commodities windfall.

They did a textbook job. It went exactly according to the book.

I'm not much of a newspaper reader, but I like to write stories. I thought I knew how to write a newspaper story, but in reading the textbook there's a lot to it, and I'm not just saying that.

IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents, and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.

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.

If there were an almost textbook progression in the academic community, that's Ben Allen. I think that is a real tribute to him that he has held these many different positions and he has been highly respected in everything he does.

Because the textbook publishers are not going to lower their prices, we must combat the outrageous prices of textbooks at the local level.

If I buy a hardcover biology textbook today, it was written three years ago. With an online textbook, the publisher can change it immediately, so the kids are getting up-to-date information. That's a tremendous difference.

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.

This is looking like a textbook case of the dangers of putting defendants on the stand.

All indications are that this was a textbook situation. We will also supply results to our training division to see if there's any training changes that need to be made.

The homework we give is not busy work. It might be preparation for the next day's lesson, practice that day's lesson, or it might be to research beyond the textbook or it might be to study for exams.

The first time I saw her play I could tell she's a player to help build around. I knew even before the first exhibition that she could shoot by watching her shoot at practice. She's really got a textbook shot, and it makes things easier.

The market is showing a textbook reaction, buying safe-haven currencies like the Swiss franc and euro and away from the dollar.