Top 1200 University Professors Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

When I was 24, I went back to the academic life and did a degree in film and television at Brunel University.

When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading libel law firm, Carter Ruck, from MPs to free speech groups, discussed the issue of corporations. There was unanimous agreement that there needed to be restrictions on the right of corporations to sue in libel.

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.

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

I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.

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

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

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in the least teach the divine view of nature, but the popular view, or rather the popular method of studying nature, and make haste to conduct the persevering pupil only into that dilemma where the professors always dwell.

I went for two days to the Delhi Campus of the University of London and did not go back again.

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

The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.

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

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

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

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

Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.

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

I tried to go to university, and I stayed there for one year, but I didn't do much there because I already had a contract with Benfica.

I do think there's not enough film history being taught and appreciated. Maybe it's being taught, but I've heard from professors that young kids don't want to look at black-and-white movies. And that's 85 years of film history, with masterpiece after masterpiece.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

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

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.

The media does not do news. The media is the Democrat Party hacks assigned to journalism positions. Some hacks are consultants. Some are candidates. Some serve in elective office. Some are professors. Some are teaching assistants. Some run think tanks. Others are in the media.

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

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

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

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

Ohio State University puts out some very fine football players.

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

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

I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off.

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

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

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

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

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.

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

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

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

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.

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

I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

I shrunk my favourite jeans in my first week of university. I'd never done a wash before.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

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

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