Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages?… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton,… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes,… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the intense pressure on faculty members to publish, nationwide surveys indicate that they value teaching as highly as scholarly research.6 For… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes.… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office. — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international… — James McKeen Cattell Copy Share Image
To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this… — Russell Johnson Copy Share Image
We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
I’ve heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a “professor — Tucker Max Copy Share Image