The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I… — Russell Johnson Copy Share Image
Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand… — John Hench Copy Share Image
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I… — Henry Scott Holland Copy Share Image
YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?' 'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling… — Robert J. Dolan Copy Share Image
The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen… — April Parker Jones Copy Share Image
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor.… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
The professors at Harvard are smarter and more world-renowned, and so your child will learn from a pre-eminent scholar who is a… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
“I think things that i shouldn't.I dream things that i shouldn't.I want things that i shouldn't and it's all because of one… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image