Professors Quotes · Page 6

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

— Terry H. Anderson

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become…

— Samuel Alito

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Warren Farrell

Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

— J. K. Rowling

Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service.

— Ann Coulter

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

— J. Philippe Rushton

Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most…

— John Clute

It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the…

— Robert Audi

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been…

— Albert Einstein

Like all professors, I also do a lot of extra jobs for which I was never trained, such as advising former students…

— Hope Jahren

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and…

— Laura Hillenbrand

The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was…

— Denton Cooley

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies'…

— Thomas Sowell

Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny…

— Daniel Goleman

One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971)…

— Michael Tsarion

If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism…

— Bernard Crick

We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the…

— Ann Coulter

Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they…

— Wangari Maathai

There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter…

— Matt Damon

In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his…

— Sam Abell

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even…

— Kenny Smith

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

— H. L. Mencken

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

— Matthew Henry

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

— Ludwig von Mises

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

— Morris Kline

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view…

— Jonathan Turley

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

— Simone Veil

As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.

— Eileen Pollack

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

— David Horowitz

“Nigeria is the only country where professors rig elections for incompetent politicians, but expel students for examination malpractices.”

— Olawale Daniel

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

— Poppy Z. Brite

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

— William Shakespeare

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

— Hal Boyle

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

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

— Charles Spurgeon

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

— Richard Russo