“I am a master of folklore - I should be able to throw folklore fireballs or something.” — Michael R. Underwood Copy Share Image
“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.” — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach. — W. D. Snodgrass Copy Share Image
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers. — Mildred Dresselhaus Copy Share Image
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public,… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
“I don't understand, Your Majesty." "Of course you don't; you academics!" Skarmak snarled. "All you do is sit in your towers, trying… — Tracy Hickman Laura Hickman Copy Share Image
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“On my first day in London I made an early start. Reaching the Public Record Office not much after ten, I soon… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The first finding that jumped out at us was that it is possible to learn too much ! In the tournament, investing… — Kevin N Laland Copy Share Image
“Let's turn now to the citation of authors, found in other books and missing in yours. The solution to this is very… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“A computer search would have given me a list of pertinent cases, but without that I had to read everything. That is… — Shon Hopwood Copy Share Image
“One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Within a few moments he was immersed in his work. The evening before, he had caught up with the routine of his… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I don't like exams. I don't like giving exams, and I don't like meetings.” — Mark W. Moffett Copy Share Image
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg Copy Share Image
Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back. — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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