University Quotes · Page 55

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

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

— Daniel Cormier

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

— Anita Roddick

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the…

— Maurice Levy

One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.

— Bari Weiss

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

— Marianne Elliott

From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While…

— William M. Fowler

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to…

— Alain de Botton

He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it…

— David Nicholls

It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said,…

— Miranda Hart

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big…

— Jude Deveraux

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to…

— Henry Green

There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline.…

— Edward Snowden

I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000…

— Malcolm X

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

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 went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or…

— Katy Tur

Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in…

— Daniela Hantuchova

I'm a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master's degree in education from Florida State University.

— Michelle McCool

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

— Ludwig von Mises

When your two major sports, your two revenue sports, are going well, that bodes well for the whole university.

— Tom Izzo

I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing.…

— Julia Davis

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

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

— Michael N. Castle

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

— Emma Corrin

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

— Anonymous

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

— Ezekiel Elliott

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

— Dan Hardy

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

— Marta Kristen

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

— Lois Frankel