Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila 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
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear… — Robert Kiyosaki 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
What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How… — Clive James Copy Share Image
