Cornell Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966…
— Roald Hoffmann
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
— Thomas Pynchon
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...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that…
— Michael Pollan
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In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese…
— Hu Shih
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At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and…
— Catherine Hicks
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline…
— Vaclav Klaus
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
— Tea Obreht
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Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid…
— Shailene Woodley
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But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an…
— Ally Carter
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In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food,…
— Ricky Jay
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Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is…
— Bruce Dickinson
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I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot…
— William T. Vollmann
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I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I…
— Ato Essandoh
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Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.
— Ato Essandoh
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Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.
— Philipp Meyer
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At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year…
— Philipp Meyer
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One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson…
— Robert Morgan
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In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.
— Kenneth G. Wilson
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M.I.T.: I had a nervous breakdown this weekend. Have some fries. Caltech: I had three nervous breakdowns this weekend. Have some fries. Yale: I got…
— Kevin
Who Wrote These Cornell Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Cornell Quotes as follows: