Top 878 Professor Mcgonagall Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

What I did as a professor is not that different than what I do in hearings.

My dad was an English professor.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale.

I can't give a Professor love!

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

I want to be an activist professor.

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

As a professor I can't teach writing.

As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps will ever do. But surely ... they would have put it into spirits, or into the Illustrated News, or perhaps cut it into two halves, poor dear little thing, and sent one to Professor Owen, and one to Professor Huxley, to see what they would each say about it.

I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.

You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she can do; and nobody knows; not even Sir Roderick Murchison, or Professor Huxley, or Mr. Darwin, or Professor Faraday, or Mr. Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect. They are very wise men; and you must listen respectfully to all they say: but even if they should say, which I am sure they never would, 'That cannot exist. That is contrary to nature,' you must wait a little, and see; for perhaps even they may be wrong.

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor, my mom, she has such great faith.

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, 'No, the scariest noise is, you're all alone in your dark house, you know you're all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within miles—and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the toilet flush.

During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine, Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old together.

Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

When I hit 50, I want to go be a professor.

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

My mother was a professor of English and History.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.