Top 1200 College Professors Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.

I attended College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif., for a year, but college wasn't for me. I was curious about life beyond Los Angeles.

We're professional athletes. I feel like I got treated better in college wrestling. I had a physical therapist on hand at all times, no matter what, when I was in college.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

Of our seven children, five are at ABC Supply. The three older daughters went to college. The boys went into construction, and I wasn't disappointed they didn't go to college.

Every time you make a jump, whether it's from high school to college or college to the NBA, you're going to hear questions about your athletic ability.

I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.

I was at Wesleyan first. I was there for a semester because I wanted that traditional college vibe. But when I got there, people would do normal college things, and I was like, 'I can't be here. This is a nightmare.'

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.

As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

An interesting reversal is happening right now. The college women who kicked all this off have been superseded in the mainstream media by celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. And now a new group of college women - the ones in college now - are looking at Paltrow and Jolie as models for the appropriate way of dealing with sexual predators.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz.

I went to Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, then to Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for a couple of years.

The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

At a Texas college, a football field that was turned into a farm. The Tigers of Paul Quinn College lost more football games than they won on this field. So, years ago, when the historically black college on the South Side of Dallas was in financial crisis and had a 1 percent graduation rate, a new president turned everything over, including the football field.

I had no desire to coach college until I went to college. Then I said, 'Maybe I can do this.' You get inspired by the people around you who move you and light a fire under you.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.

Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.

I graduated from college when I was 20. To get enough money to finish college, I went into the ROTC, and I was an officer in the Air Force before I could buy a drink.

This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

When I was in college I wrote for a newspaper there called the 'Every Three Weekly,' which, like a lot of college humor papers, was sort of based on 'The Onion.'

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Basically, I played basketball for a small college out here in California and when I was done playing college, I settled down and got a job.

Some people just join the military because they need college money. Then they're idiots and college wasn't going to help.

It's hard to describe to people unless you're a college football fan, the energy of it, the pageantry, getting onto a college campus in the fall.

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

About a year after I retired from playing, I decided that I wanted to getback to college, where I had the greatest time of my life, and to get involved with college football.

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

I only went to college for one semester, community college outside of Dallas. I got to the end of that and said, 'I'm not doing this anymore,' and moved to L.A. and landed a job.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

Yea, I wrote my college thesis on why college athletes should get paid. I think there's a way to do it based on the amount of revenue they generate.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.