University Quotes · Page 15

Tate University - A large football stadium, with a college attached.

— Harold Lloyd

I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.

— Ishaan Khatter

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

— Bianca Belair

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

— James Nesbitt

I've had an amazing experience at Syracuse University.

— Dion Waiters

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

— David Nicholls

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

— Douglass North

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

— Terry Eagleton

I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

— Joe Morton

When I was 24, I went back to the academic life and did a degree in film and television at Brunel University.

— Lee Mack

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before…

— Kehinde Wiley

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

— Peter McWilliams

Winning a place at a top university should be decided solely by a student's hard work and ability, not by what they…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child…

— Mark Kennedy

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

— Robert Lacey

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I…

— Garry Hynes

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later…

— Dale T. Mortensen

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human…

— Seth Low

In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning,…

— Rem Koolhaas

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the…

— Bei Dao

I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to…

— Holliday Grainger

Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there.…

— Rem Koolhaas

In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a…

— Manning Marable

One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event,…

— Mike Tirico

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant…

— Terry Pratchett

Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation…

— Douglas Houghton Campbell

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with…

— Tara Parker-Pope

“For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place…

— Carla Lonzi

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and…

— Elie Wiesel

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

— James Bryant Conant

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

— Elizabeth Moon

I've been no-platformed from every university with a strong Islamic faith community.

— Katie Hopkins

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

— Liam Neeson

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

St. John's University has meant so much to me and my family.

— Chris Mullin

If you can't create a world-class university, why not invite one in?

— Ted Wheeler

I was Sweater Queen at Bowling Green State University. Oh, that's a laugh, isn't it?

— Eva Marie Saint