ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ABOUT
Old English abūtan, onbūtan on the outside of, around, from on + būtan outside.
10 QUOTES WITH «ABOUT»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
about.
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.
I have no regrets about my life.
I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'
I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.
I'm picky about skin care because I hate perfumes or anything that says 'It will take away all the lines on your face.' I don't want to do that. But I do use Kiehl's and this skin cream called Restorsea because it makes my skin look nice and feel soft.
All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABOUT»
Discover the use of
about in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
about and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain ...
2
Ten Things I Hate
about Me
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
3
What I Talk
About When I Talk
About Running
From the Trade Paperback edition.
4
What Video Games Have to Teach Us
About Learning and ...
Argues that video games go beyond entertainment and examines the principles that make these games valuable tools of learning and literacy.
We need to get it in our heads that suicide is not easy, painless, cowardly, selfish, vengeful, selfmasterful, or rash; that it is not caused by breast augmentation, medicines, "slow" methods like smoking or anorexia, or, as some ...
6
A Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book ...
Relevant across a range of management courses, the Second Edition of A Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations offers students a lively, focused and challenging discussion of classical and ...
7
101 Facts
about Bullying: What Everyone Should Know
Bullying behaviors create an uncomfortable, threatening, and even hostile environment that make it difficult for children to learn. 101 Facts about Bullying is designed to break down what the research says about bullying and its effects, ...
Meline Kevorkian, Robin D'Antona, 2008
8
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
This completely updated volume presents the effective and practical tools you need to design great desktop applications, Web 2.0 sites, and mobile devices.
Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, 2012
Peter Newmark's third book is an attempt to deepen and extend his views on translation.
10
14,000 Things to Be Happy
About
A fun-filled listing of fourteen thousand things that people should be happy about features 1,500 new entries and includes such items as new babies, a well-crafted chair, a real person answering the phone, staying home on New Year's Eve, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABOUT»
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about is used in the context of the following news items.
Queries about housing rights to advice group Flac up 82%
Queries about housing rights to the Free Legal Advice Centres (Flac) increased by 82 per cent last year compared with 2013, according to the ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Former DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW Guitarist RITCHIE BLACKMORE …
I'm thinking about playing rock again, just for a few days, next June, DEEP PURPLE and RAINBOW songs. But for now, I'm not decided on the ... «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Jul 15»
Spurs reportedly 'optimistic' about Ginobili's return
The Argentine master of the Euro-step has been on the fence about a return, informing his native newspaper La Nacion he will announce his ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
A Canadian novel about Kerry's 'mythic' Rás Tailteann in the 1950s
“There's something a bit nationalist about it, too, in that Newfoundland only became part of Canada in 1949. And by the time they were building ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Burning rain forest raises concern about future
On the western side of the Cascades, there is more uncertainty about how climate change will affect fire cycles. Major fires have flared in the ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
Canada doesn't share US concerns about 'ghost schools' in …
When asked to explain why Canada wasn't worried about the veracity of the same data, Foreign Affairs took a different approach. In a follow up ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
With Merging of Insurers, Questions for Patients About Costs and …
The large for-profit insurers do not have a significant presence in about a dozen states, including Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon and ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Nauru detention centre staff warned not to speak about 'anything …
Detention centre staff were warned not to speak to journalists and other organisations about “anything that happens” on Nauru and Manus ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
What the Sandhill Cranes Teach Us About Corporate Hierarchy and …
We as business leaders can learn a lot about how to navigate our way through transition, stand point against strong winds, and lead the whole ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
7 key things to know about Greece's debt crisis and what happens next
Greece has voted no, and now — after five years of bailouts, budget battles and a battered economy — it is on the brink of becoming the first ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
