Top 1200 University Professors Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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 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.

One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.

I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.

Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

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 had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

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 lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.

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

The World University Games Gold medal was a great confidence booster for me. It highlighted my talents, my performance and dedication.

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.

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.

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

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

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

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'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.

I think my dad's rebellion is that he's super accepting - I mean, he, like, encouraged me to drop out of university. And to do acting.

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

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 lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

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.

I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.

I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.

Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.

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

I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

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

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

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

As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.

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

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

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.

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

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

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.