Professors Quotes · Page 10

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

— Barry McCaffrey

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")

— Anonymous

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

— J. Philippe Rushton

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

— H. L. Mencken

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

— William Safire

He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.

— Kehinde Wiley

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It…

— Roy Romer

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and…

— Steve Inskeep

I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the…

— Muhammad Yunus

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there…

— Michael Josephson

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

— Sarah Palin

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any…

— Robert B. Parker

Professor Trelawney: "Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!" Harry Potter:…

— J. K. Rowling

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone…

— Mercedes Ruehl

So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?” “Merlin’s beard, no,”…

— Anonymous

The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike…

— Danny Glover

I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that…

— Laura Kipnis

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

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please…

— Rich Mullins

Devil’s Snare, Devil’s Snare . . . what did Professor Sprout say? — it likes the dark and the damp —” “So…

— Anonymous

Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New…

— David Limbaugh

And therefore you who think so basely of the gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort…

— William Gurnall

A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock.…

— Vicki Davis

I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was…

— Walter E. Williams

How funny is it that so many professors labeled Tea Partiers as terrorists, while kissing the asses of real, bona fide terrorists?…

— Greg Gutfeld

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a…

— Russell Jacoby

The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture…

— Arthur Compton

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals.…

— Pierre Hadot

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“It is a great satisfaction for many professors if their mentees choose to remain at the university”

— Eraldo Banovac

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

— Derek Bok

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

— Anonymous

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

— Maya Lin

Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

— Extra P

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

— Hans Asperger

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

— Franz Grillparzer