A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus” — Isaiah Hankel Copy Share Image
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
“Working in academic is a constant approach, not a sporadic incident” — Kaustav Misra Copy Share Image
“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus. — Peter S. Prescott Copy Share Image
(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation. — Samuel Bowers Copy Share Image
I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic… — Ara Parseghian Copy Share Image
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value;… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the… — Donald Kennedy Copy Share Image
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way,… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“No legitimate field of study should be suppressed because of academic politics.” — J.C. Ryan Copy Share Image
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was… — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image