I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will… — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for… — James Alison Copy Share Image
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders.… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again… — Robin Winks Copy Share Image
I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“I'll go all out, ace every test No doubt, outdo all the rest Don't pout or settle for second best So I… — Katherine Lynn-Rose Copy Share Image
Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
