Professors Quotes

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

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

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

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.

He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.

I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

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

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

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

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

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

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

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.