Professors Quotes · Page 13

If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out…

— Jack Handey

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage…

— Adam Ross

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

— Camille Paglia

The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all…

— Anonymous

[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns…

— Paul Laffoley

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

— H. L. Mencken

We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every…

— Ivan Illich

I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

— Elie Wiesel

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I…

— Elie Wiesel

My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs…

— Ralph Nader

Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last…

— Alan Chambers

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for…

— Douglas Hofstadter

Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't…

— Camryn Manheim

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university…

— Adolf Hitler

If you don't have to pay for everything you're providing, why in the world should you cut the cost of it, when…

— Rush Limbaugh

Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering'…

— Anonymous

Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way…

— Paul Kengor

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran…

— Walter Kirn

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

— Cate Marvin

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

— Mason Cooley

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968,…

— Edward Said

Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.

— Anonymous