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
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. — A. S. Byatt 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
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how… — Graham Hancock 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
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
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
My father, because he was an academic, he did not shy away from meeting with academics who focused on political science, sociology,… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic. — Bjork 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
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. — Molly Corbett Broad Copy Share Image
I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D.… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for… — Nicole Anderson Copy Share Image
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth. — David Horowitz 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
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
