Scholarship Quotes · Page 5

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

— Jonathon Keats

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get…

— Ryan McGinley

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau

I told myself I was going to get a scholarship so I could get a degree and take care of my family.

— Demaryius Thomas

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

— Terry Crews

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

— William Hazlitt

I got a full-ride scholarship to the University of South Carolina for track.

— Bianca Belair

I always thought I was going to be a soccer player, get a scholarship to college, and then join the U.S. women's…

— Lily Aldridge

I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live…

— Hannah Brown

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America…

— Anonymous

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into…

— Frank Moore Cross

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten…

— Lou Holtz

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You…

— Shia LaBeouf

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture…

— Reid Hoffman

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and…

— Walter Pater

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

— Marvin Olasky

Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this…

— Lindsey Shaw

It's weird to make a decision where everyone in your life disapproves, pretty vocally and directly. They said, "You've got one year…

— Demetri Martin

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a…

— Reza Aslan

Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on…

— William Thurston

Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit…

— Michael S. Heiser

Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number…

— Tim Duncan

There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We…

— Henry Rosovsky

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

— Derek Walcott

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

— Billy Sunday

I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.

— Carl Hart

“Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

— Franz Grillparzer

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

— William Hazlitt

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

— Anthony Anderson

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

— Scott Hall

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of…

— Werner Herzog

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory

— Michel Chossudovsky

I was the last one to get a scholarship out of my year - at 14, I think. I couldn't play up…

— Kyle Walker

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

— Juan Cole

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

— Eve Torres