Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry but then I won the award for physical training.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion but in fact what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly but even encouraged music at certain times.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine never seen an operation.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

I've studied all my musical life but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning some new thought which will make us better.

The more I have studied Lincoln the more I have followed his thought processes the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

Real knowledge like everything else of value is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for studied for thought for and more that all must be prayed for.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which by their analogy with other facts are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Every view and every object I studied attentively by viewing them again and again on every side for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.