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
I definitely don't feel like I learnt anything, uh, academic. I mean, that's partly my fault. I'm not a sponge for that. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions,… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
“Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don’t keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic.… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for… — Toby Young 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
For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty 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
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
For me, love is very non-academic. Love, it’s a very physical thing. I don’t mean physical in terms of - I mean,… — Moby Copy Share Image
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
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
It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education… — Israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right… — Caitlin Moran 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
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit… — Richard Wall Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could have gone down a more academic route if I wanted to but I just didn't. It's not for everyone and… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs. — Paul Vallas Copy Share Image
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs. — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
