To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world. — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“I love you, Skye. You’re in my heart, in my head, under my skin. You’re my present and my future.” — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind. — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university. — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose, — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. — Ignacio Chapela Copy Share Image
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“In the business world it's not what you know, it's who you know. In the academic world it's not who you know,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students… — Walter E. Williams 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
“I try not to look like a university man here…My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the… — Eilis Dillon Copy Share Image
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could… — Brenda Jackson Copy Share Image
Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin 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 have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“To be a successful academic, it is not enough merely to have mastered the craft of writing intelligibly. You must also be… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I moved across the country to become an actor, not an academic type. — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that. — Theo Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route. — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
