Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues… — Konrad Bloch Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
