My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“I study these things.I'm an academic.I don't get tangled up in trivial matters of the heart.” — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 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
“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere. — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise. — John Macquarrie Copy Share Image
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind… — Jack Gleeson 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
I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford… — Jon Huertas Copy Share Image
Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade)… — Nevill Drury Copy Share Image
Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral… — Amy Chua 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
“Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” (Ch.22 p.201)” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy… — Leo Strauss 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
Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus,… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical… — Tony Wagner Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way,… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des… — Sebastian Smee 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
Most of the time, teachers who talk about the Middle East do not know the history, culture or present context of the… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
