Derek Bok Quotes

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

Derek Bok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1930

Topics

GoodWarInterestingCreatingOut

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

Max Walker

GoodSonFootballSchoolCricket

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

John Irving

ConstructionBelievePrincipalMine

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

Amanda Marshall

BirthdayCakeChocolateFindNever

When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.

Tony Evans

GodYouNowStandardsReconciliation

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

Tony Judt

MindBeingMuchCommunitiesExpelled

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Robert E. Lee

StrengthLightMeBibleNeverGive

If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.

Rodrigo Duterte

YouNothingWillHappenJournalist

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Martin O'Malley

MorningCameraYouHouseNewspaper

I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people, especially people who listen to music.

Johnny Mathis

SuccessMusicEyesHappyPeopleWay

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

Derek Walcott

PoetryThinkBigAnywhereReally

I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.

Deborah Tannen

YouTellJudgmentalOlderSisters

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Anthony Anderson

FunYouWantHollywoodIndependent

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