University Quotes · Page 48

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university…

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Garry Hynes

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

— Michael N. Castle

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

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life. The only college where everyone…

— Anonymous

I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.

— Emma Corrin

The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a…

— James Delingpole

President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can…

— Conan O'Brien

“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone . What sort of people would we…

— Terry Pratchett

No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her…

— Tobsha Learner

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech -…

— Ann Coulter

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very…

— Deborah Kara Unger

I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You…

— James Callis

For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the…

— Anonymous

I went for two days to the Delhi Campus of the University of London and did not go back again.

— Ritesh Agarwal

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my…

— Eric Darnell

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor…

— Marta Kristen

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

— Christine Blasey Ford

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all…

— Constance Baker Motley

I did enjoy university, but ever since I was a kid, martial arts has come first and what I feel most comfortable…

— Dan Hardy

Ohio means a lot to me. Kinda like a second home, just the memories I have here and the fans I made…

— Ezekiel Elliott

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

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

— Joe Morton

“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle…

— Israelmore Ayivor

My son was born right here in Florida; he went to public schools and went to the University of Florida and surprised…

— Lois Frankel

The students' union and the student body work hard to support the university in encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to…

— Wes Streeting

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

— Paulo Coelho

If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I…

— Daniel Cormier

I dropped out of my drama course at university after a year and just floated from rubbish job to rubbish job, with…

— Gok Wan

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

— Mary Augusta Ward

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

“And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.”

— Ian Rankin

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change;…

— Anita Roddick

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued…

— Rod Parsley

I had a very embarrassing time acting extremely badly at university, which is when directing suddenly became so attractive.

— Marianne Elliott

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in…

— Nic Pizzolatto