Professors Quotes · Page 7

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town

— Tom Waits

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

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

— Rand Paul

“surveys show that over 90 percent of professors believe that their teaching is above average,”

— Derek Bok

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

— J. K. Rowling

I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your…

— Cormac McCarthy

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

— Anonymous

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page…

— Claire Danes

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them.…

— Elliott Abrams

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate…

— Sun Myung Moon

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in…

— Paul D. Boyer

Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable…

— Alexander Viets Griswold

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands…

— Sherry Turkle

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of…

— Richard P. Feynman

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by…

— Joseph Addison

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The…

— Marshall McLuhan

The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to…

— Stephen King

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if…

— Colin Greenland

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Anonymous

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new…

— Andrew Dickson White

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

— Madeleine Albright

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

— Derek Landy

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

— Gertrude Stein

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.

— Jedediah Bila

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get…

— Pam Houston

I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

— Barack Obama

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my…

— David Eddings

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

— Noam Chomsky

The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.

— Betsy DeVos

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

— H. L. Mencken

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while…

— Les Back

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe…

— Ernest Rutherford

as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here -…

— Paul Krugman