Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
I look at Large Professor as a big influence. I grew up with him and being able to grow up with him… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Why? I mean, why you? I can perfectly comprehend not liking my husband. I dislike him intensely most of the time.” Professor… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person;… — Robert Audi Copy Share Image
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite… — David Blackwell Copy Share Image
Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change… — Ben Rattray Copy Share Image
I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image