I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a… — Gustav Nossal Copy Share Image
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. — Ignacio Chapela Copy Share Image
Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect… — John Howard Copy Share Image
For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
“There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze… — J.C. McKeown Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g.,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you refuse to drink from the fountain of knowledge, you'll die of thirst in the desert of ignorance! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was… — Jorge Paulo Lemann Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
