Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice… — Christian Karlson Stead Copy Share Image
I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic… — Rob James-Collier Copy Share Image
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose, — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work. — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor.… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“This man was a keeper and I was indeed willing to make him mine" - Eliana Richards” — Jessica Girke Copy Share Image
