My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about… — Mircea Monroe Copy Share Image
My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better,… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I would say that by being irresponsibly disorganized, by saying yes to everything and then seeing how it all works out, that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton did better among working-class whites when she's running against Barack Hussein Obama. How is she doing now against an older,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view… — Jonathan Turley 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
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
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
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
“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
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
... 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
“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
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. — Soren Kierkegaard 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
