Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. — Manuel Puig
I'm a commercial person, not an academic. — Alan Sugar
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around,… — Rachael Taylor
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. — Elizabeth McGovern
As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy… — Rebel Wilson
I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them: — Marilyn Frye
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. — Pierre Trudeau
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the… — Terry Eagleton
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most… — Eugene H. Peterson
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people… — C. Everett Koop
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. — Naveen Andrews
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions. — Andrew Bird
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. — Gavin Bryars
I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like. — Lenora Crichlow
The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your… — Nadia Ali
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies. — Nicole Anderson
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. — Juan Cole
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. — Juan Cole
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no… — Freema Agyeman

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