Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
“The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.” — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I excelled in my academics. But, I also was a cheerleader and I ran track. — Rubi Rose Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame.… — Justin Tuck Copy Share Image
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers,… — Robin Chase Copy Share Image
It's pointless to talk to Fed members about economics because they are academics who believe in money-printing. Some of them believe they… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“But I know I didn't love school for school's sake. I had never really been what people call an 'academic' person, nor… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on… — Aaron D. O'Connell Copy Share Image
If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
