Top 1200 Oxford University Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I had gone to university and done engineering and then I got into art school and said I'm going to do this for three years.

At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

I've been studying mutual funds since 1949, when I began researching my senior thesis at Princeton University.

I had a very embarrassing time acting extremely badly at university, which is when directing suddenly became so attractive.

It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if you are good or not.

I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.

My mum is a social worker and my dad's a roofer. My brother Nicky and I were the first two in my family to go to university.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than they are today. Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City and later when we went to Oxford before we got married we always went to the Catholic church.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.

The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in D.C. and started working as an understudy at the Arena.

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

I got a degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and can most definitely sing the greatest college fight song of all time.

When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say, 'What's the difference?'

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Mississippi State University and other institutions are established leaders in the development and integration of unmanned aerial systems.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

In many ways, the effort to study philosophy was my rebellion away from medicine. I'm the son of two Indian immigrant physicians, so the natural path for me would have been to become a doctor. I ended up doing the master's degree at Oxford in politics, philosophy, and economics while already having a seat in medical school. I was keeping that as my escape hatch. But my hope was that I might become a philosopher or something else entirely.

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.

My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas.

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

I'm going to prove I belong. There's a lot of skepticism about the type of player I am, where I come from, the University of Wyoming, obviously.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.