What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut,… — Kenna Copy Share Image
Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you. — Terry H. Anderson Copy Share Image
Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K. — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've… — Khalil Gibran Muhammad Copy Share Image
In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image