Top 1200 Oxford University Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.

I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.

When I was a young co-ed at Arizona State University, my sister was the president of the College Republicans. I was her secretary.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

I graduated from college in 2002, and then I went to law school at St. Thomas University in Miami in 2004.

Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

I love being a Duke student, and continuing to be part of the university culture is something I don't take for granted.

After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

'Skins' was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.

I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to undermine marriage or to promote abortion.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The first game I played against the University of Miami, I was very nervous - eyes wide open.

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.

Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.

Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown on the idea of multiply connected spaces, he wrote the book under a pseudonym and wrote it for children. His name was Charles Dodgson, his pseudonym was Lewis Carroll, and the book was Through The Looking Glass.

All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.

When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

I studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, which was amazing. I can't speak highly enough of that school.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.