I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
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I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father… — Paul McEuen Copy Share Image
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist,… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of… — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just… — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Two of my most important signings were made at the beginning of 2004. I took 20-year-old Clint Dempsey with the eighth pick… — Steve Nicol Copy Share Image