“ The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
- 1.6K
“ And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ”
- Stan Dunn- Copy
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“ Oxford is — Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor. ”
- Charles Reade- Copy
- 137
“ You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out. ”
- Carl Yastrzemski- Copy
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“ He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul. ”
- James Allen- Copy
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