A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong…

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was…

— Jane McGonigal

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order…

— Tom Stoppard

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help…

— Robert Musil

I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my…

— Charlie Brooker

There's no reason for me to go into a big dissertation about why I'm not getting the calls. The refs have to do their…

— Michael Vick

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory,…

— Stuart Chase

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

— John Adams

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

— Douglass North

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

— Raoul Peck

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

— Baz Luhrmann

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

— Geoffrey Miller

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

— Vijay Iyer

A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when…

— Ryan Knighton

“That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into the bargain, maybe, and a kid or two to go along…

— Paul Auster

“What's a dissertation?" "If Satan gave you instructions for writing the book report from Hell, it would closely resemble those of a Ph.D. dissertation.”

— Tiffany Reisz