Academy Quotes
252 quotes by 222 authors
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I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown…
— Pieter Zeeman
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To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the…
— Frederick The Great
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I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first…
— George Polya
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The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program…
— Jeanne Achterberg
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When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were…
— Dries van Noten
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Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan,…
— Ron Rash
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Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment,…
— Andrew Sullivan
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I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to…
— Robert Osborne
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I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.
— Robert Osborne
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I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real…
— Oscar Wilde
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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
— Edmund Burke
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
— Harold Bloom
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I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
— David Naughton
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My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.
— Elizabeth Olsen
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Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you…
— Gary Shteyngart
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I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the…
— Diana Lopez
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There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.
— Aubrey Plaza
Who Wrote These Academy Quotes
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