A Quote by Ralph Vaughan Williams

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Almost Always Difficult Dog Entirely Found Learnt Out Study Trying

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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English - Composer
October 12, 1872 - August 26, 1958

My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe. So I learnt that, and I learnt how to copy it, and I learnt how to shift in and out of it, but also talk like my mother's relatives in the village.

Rege-Jean Page

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.

John Torode

Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

Nick Dear

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

Declan Donnelly

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

Kate Bush

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

Kate Bush

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Lionel Blue

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

Richard Livingstone

The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.

Lu Wei

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too.

Suhasini Maniratnam

At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

Jon Lord

I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy.

Shaun Wright-Phillips

There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.

Peter Cundill

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.