Academia Quote by Frances O'Connor Download Open image “I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.” — Frances O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academia Tempted
I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue. — Ishaan Khatter Copy Share Image
I'm glad I ain't go to college, though. I probably woulda wasted my time. — Angus Cloud Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology.… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back. — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college. — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
There were hard days when you'd be screaming for hours and then the next day, you'd have a scene where you were just talking… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that. — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park. — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them.… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it… — D.E. Navarro Copy Share Image
