Top 877 Professor Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
It's amazing what's buried in old, poorly digitized PDFs hosted on some random professor's website.
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?
I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.
I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.
I do miss George Bush. Compared to these teabaggers and the people who are pandering to them, he looks like a professor.
The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.
I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.
My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.
I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.
I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.
One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
Show business comes with wonderfully long vacations, like the life of a college professor.
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —
My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.
[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.
Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service.
In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
I think me and Kristen Bell are going to start a band. It's called Kung-Fu Professor.
(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
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.
Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity. . . .
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.
Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'
I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor.
I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.
I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.
