A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues.” — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?" — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
My dissertation focused on the character traits and personality types of successful women. — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out. — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D.,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what… — David Liss Copy Share Image
My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one… — Ryan Knighton Copy Share Image
Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space."… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“What's a dissertation?" "If Satan gave you instructions for writing the book report from Hell, it would closely resemble those of a… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet.… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image