Best Quote by Alex Horne

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers…

— David Mamet

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to…

— Bernard Williams

“Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences.…

— Dean Koontz

“And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law…

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

— Anonymous

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my…

— Richard Dawkins

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

— Stacy Schiff

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades…

— Frederik Pohl

“True, she never got a real M.B.A., but she had taken courses online and worked her way through list after list of so-called Great…

— Laura Lippman

“done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got another DEGREE,…

— Gillian Firth

“Getting degree only makes someone literate to the society or the nation. But sometime their uncultured acts make them illiterate. Cause they have uneducated…

— Salman Aziz

“...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a…

— E.A. Bucchianeri