Professors Quotes · Page 5

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. “The…

— Anonymous

Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids…

— Demetri Martin

[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she…

— Nat Hentoff

I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy…

— Richard Rorty

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

— Clayton M. Christensen

With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more…

— Dave Hickey

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

— Maya Lin

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of…

— Graeme Simsion

I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…

— Charles Lyell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

— Warren Farrell

We are not shooting enough professors

— Vladimir Lenin

[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of…

— Laura Sydell

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were…

— Ellen Willis

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers…

— Ernest L. Boyer

Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical…

— Bell Hooks

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long…

— Justin Cronin

I do miss George Bush. Compared to these teabaggers and the people who are pandering to them, he looks like a professor.

— Bill Maher

A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ...…

— Richard M. Weaver

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any…

— Stephen Leacock

Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in…

— Henry David Thoreau