Quotes About Author

I think the Tea Party has brought enormous strength to the Republican Party and I absolutely support its fiscal responsibility message, yes.

The Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement were both, in a sense, complaining about the same thing, namely the use of public money to rescue failed banks.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.

I'm not the best person to analyze any kind of evolution in my work, but I do feel like it's been an ongoing struggle to basically teach myself how to tell the kinds of stories that interest me in comics form.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

I was a high school teacher when I joined Bullet Club and started going to Japan.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

My son has no interest in music other than as a listener. He teaches English to Japanese students.

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

I'm not a dispensationalist - I don't believe in the Rapture. I think it's an unbiblical doctrine, and in North American Christianity, at least, it is the teaching that is the root of much of our subculturalism.

I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.