I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted. — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
Too often, business schools teach academic crisis management theory, if that, but given the diverse and unique nature of crises, all the… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists,… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
This work of the Lord is indeed great and marvelous, but it moves forward essentially unnoticed by many of mankind's political, cultural,… — L. Whitney Clayton Copy Share Image
It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
