Top 1200 Oxford University Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

I was a member of the Fab Five at the University of Michigan, but I was also on the Dean's List there. I took pride in my education.

I will always support St. John's University in keeping our basketball tradition alive!

My sister and I graduated from Arizona State University where she was president and I was secretary of the College Republicans.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

I'm a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master's degree in education from Florida State University.

I didn't get into drama school after university. Looking back, I think I was really bad.

I believe that a university education should be free as it is unfair on people who cannot afford to pay for it.

I want the University of Florida to be successful. I'm always going to be a Gator, unless I'm on the other sideline.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

In college I received the Best Actor award for four consecutive years under Calicut University.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Growing up, I was restricted at home from playing video games until I reached university.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

You would think that American educators would want our kids, especially our kids from poorer families, to hear what top-rated Oxford students hear. But you'd be wrong. American schools now hide their students from ideas like mine if they don't approve of the man or the message.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

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

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.