The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers,… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like… — Sami Gayle Copy Share Image
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Harvard introduced the now famous ad hoc system whereby a group of experts in the field of the faculty member to be… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How many of you have had a crush on a teacher? I mean, remember that Physics professor? Law One is so steamy,… — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has… — Jeffrey Goldberg Copy Share Image
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The President's science advisor, who is a former Harvard professor named Holdren, is involved in the email scandals and covering up the… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
“HAPPINESS I ASKED the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists -… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
There's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people, and only one… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale.… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image