University Quotes · Page 22

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

— Paul A. Baran

My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

— Lee Krasner

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

— Adam Schiff

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

— Bill Ayers

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

— Dennis Prager

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was at a really low point, thinking of going to university and doing a course because the music thing just wasn't…

— Leona Lewis

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

— H. L. Mencken

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to…

— Oliver Tambo

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

— Pat Conroy

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went…

— Stephanie Szostak

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be…

— Athanasios Orphanides

As a global company, ATT is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting…

— David George

The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato…

— Roger Taylor

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell…

— Andrea Mitchell

When you sign your letter of intent to go to college you kind of sign away, and understand that you have certain…

— Marcus Mariota

When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take…

— Kim Coates

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to…

— Anne Campbell

“Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted…

— Terry Pratchett

On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia,…

— Peter Bergen

If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth…

— Dick Durbin

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a…

— Margaret Mead

Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you…

— John Cole

I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to…

— Azim Premji

I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I…

— Carey Mulligan

I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered…

— Moby

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social…

— Kim Hyesoon

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

— Rebecca Miller

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

— Joe Morton

It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.

— Jim Boeheim

I was in university for awhile. I had one or two sales jobs. One was in real estate.

— John Part

“Life is learning process. We must keep learning.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right.”

— Amit Kalantri

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

— James Cronin

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci