I remained associated with the Technische Universitat…

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that…

— Michael Arrington

With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more art. I…

— Dave Hickey

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

I became friends on a social basis with a music professor (Dr. Alan Stein) who took a real interest in my work. He encouraged…

— John Keltonic

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

— Umberto Eco

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this:…

— Rich Mullins

Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it be. It…

— Douglas Adams

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

— Daniel Kahneman

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor,…

— Joycelyn Elders

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

— Judy Tenuta

Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body…

— H. L. Mencken

...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things,…

— Paul Krugman

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

— Ernest Borgnine

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner