Quotes About Teaching Vocabulary

#1. Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

Stephen D. Krashen

#2. She laughs outright. And I love the sound. Makes me think of tickling her. In bed. While she's naked. Lying on top of me.

M. Leighton

#3. When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

Tim Gunn

#4. Soul, wilt thou toss again?
By just such a hazard
Hundreds have lost, indeed,
But tens have won all.
Angels' breathless ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.

Emily Dickinson

#5. You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.

Gary Chapman

#6. The annoying thing about time is that it takes time...but no amount of it is enough when you are waiting to be sure. Time alone can tell you what will last.

Mil Millington

#7. One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

David Perkins

#8. A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Frances Burney

#9. My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

Duane Chapman

#10. They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics class. They're faster and stronger, so the reality is the collisions have to be bigger.

Randy Cross

#11. This is comfortable and clean and familiar. Apart from a tendency among men of a certain age to wear knee-high socks with shorts, these people are just like you and me.

Bill Bryson

#12. Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing.

Alex Honnold

#13. I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

Roger Andrew Taylor

#14. Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan apartment.

Mason Currey

#15. I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

John Searles

#16. Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#17. Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.

Sara Bareilles