Top 1200 University Professors Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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

[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 Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

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

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

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

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

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.

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 went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.

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

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.

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

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

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.

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

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

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

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

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.

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

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

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 in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

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

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

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

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

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

People think I just dropped out of university and went, 'Mum, Dad, get me a job in television.'

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

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

The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.

The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.

I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.

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

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

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

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

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

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

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

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

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

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

When we started in university we were wearing lampshades on our heads and playing wacky covers like 'I'm a Believer.'

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.

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

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

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.

I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.