University Quotes · Page 39

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to…

— Muriel Beadle

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

— Judith Martin

I love the University of Alabama.

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

I'm noticing generations that are coming up behind me that have gone to university or conservatory and, while they have beautiful technique…

— Ariana DeBose

I love the University of Florida and never wanted to leave.

— Will Grier

I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries…

— Klemens von Metternich

People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever…

— Hugh Laurie

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

— Fiona Bruce

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject…

— George W. Bush

So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the…

— Michael Kirby

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to…

— Steven Weinberg

My parents wanted me to go to university, they said I needed something to fall back on and I said: 'No I…

— Joanna Page

It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and…

— Noam Chomsky

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its…

— Salman Rushdie

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge…

— Rupert Sheldrake

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves…

— Linus Torvalds

“My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your "youniversity" will be prestigious but…

— Israelmore Ayivor

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how…

— Richard Attias

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies…

— Carol P. Christ

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human…

— Seth Low

The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.

— Shiv Nadar

I got a degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and can most definitely sing the greatest college fight song of…

— Sam Mikulak