Academy Quotes · Page 5

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

— Walter Darby Bannard

When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.

— Garbine Muguruza

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

— Harold Bloom

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

— Roger Ross Williams

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

— Peter Senge

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

— Jack Nicholson

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

— Aubrey Plaza

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses…

— David Gill

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the…

— Don Simpson

Youngsters need self-esteem, simple targets in life which give energy. In the academy they can be so easily distracted by so many…

— Per Mertesacker

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I…

— Matt Kuchar

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that…

— Gore Vidal

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to…

— Ian Mcewan

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the…

— Guglielmo Marconi

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

— Baruch Spinoza

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports.…

— Jahangir Khan

I'd set up the Khan Academy as a not-for-profit in 2008, but I was doing well in my job and initially thought…

— Sal Khan

You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by…

— Russell Simmons

My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up…

— June Squibb

The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business…

— Robert Menzies

It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to…

— Prince Charles

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that,…

— Robert Osborne

My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact,…

— Augusten Burroughs

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

— David Naughton

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

— Neville Marriner

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

— Alun Wyn Jones

I finished my career in Australia and started my Academy, showing kids technique. I just loved it.

— Harry Kewell

“Bellingham Academy: everything you always wanted in a prep school and less.”

— Amber Dermont

Findlay Prep, Brewster Academy, Oak Hill - those are all basketball powerhouses. I went to an academic powerhouse.

— Josh Hart

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

— Alyson Hannigan

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

— Jean Cocteau

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

— Bill Murray

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

— Sally Kellerman

Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.

— Moshe Vardi

Manchester City has a really good academy, and they're winning titles at all ages.

— Pep Guardiola

I played right-side centre-back many times coming throughout the academy so the position wasn't new to me.

— Reece James

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

— Maryrose Wood

I was in an academy from the age of eight. I couldn't play for my grassroots team then.

— Tyrone Mings