Professor McGonagall: "Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests… — Louis Menand 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
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society… — Dan Payne Copy Share Image
When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“In a comprehensive analysis of data on more than half a million professors, the education experts John Hattie and Herbert Marsh found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by… — salvador dalí Copy Share Image
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
“It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image