I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me.… — Earl Felton Copy Share Image
Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!” “And you didn’t see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors… — Charles Chiniquy Copy Share Image
Oh, Professor Lyall, are you making a funny? It doesn’t suit you.” The sandy-haired Beta gave Lady Maccon a dour look. “I… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y… — John C. Baez Copy Share Image
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I do miss George Bush. Compared to these teabaggers and the people who are pandering to them, he looks like a professor. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Now then, what do we know? One, that Professor Fassbinder and his daughter have been kidnapped. Two, that someone has kidnapped them.… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
“I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for years but she still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
