I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing.… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D.,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I like the way Microsoft participates in other-than-mainstream activities, such as academic research, charities, scholarships and connecting the disconnected by providing technology… — Arfa Karim Copy Share Image
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
