#taught

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#critic #fire #generous #poet #reason

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bending #directing #i #knowing #me

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#been #buy #continent #covered #eight

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

#difficult #even #extremely #grieve #how

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beginning #best #catharsis #character #end

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process. ↗

— Ann Richards

#get #going #got #home #lost

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#elementary #elementary school #i #know #me

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#country #elsewhere #england #longer #man

We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#love #people #sometimes #take #take care

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#father #i #me #music #musician