University Quotes

Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

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

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of "The Unheimlich".

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

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

Universities charge outrageous prices instead of dipping into their own massive funding.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

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

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better

In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

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.

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

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

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

I always dreamed of playing for the UK since I grew a huge UK fan but once I started visiting schools I fell in love with Miami University and decided it was the right place for me.

I was recruited by a number of schools including Miami University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, Indiana university, West Virginia University as well as others.

If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.

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

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.