Quotes About Expensive Textbooks

#1. Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

James Surowiecki

#2. Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

Sarah Churchwell

#3. These financial statements are compiled using information found in the general ledger, which is, essentially, the collection of all of a business's journal entries.

Mike Piper

#4. The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

Jay Inslee

#5. I make my hand my whole world. Hand hand hand hand. I push through the sand and light and heat, and with every bit of strength I have in me, I squeeze back.

Rae Carson

#6. Hard times nurture the beauty of hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Keeping one's attitude positive, especially when the world conspires to make us mad, is one of the great accomplishments of life.

Brendon Burchard

#8. God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

Hwang Sok-yong

#9. 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

#10. I dont know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe its because when youre headed somewhere, you dont have to be where youve already been.

Steve Hofstetter