University Quotes

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

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

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

I kind of took inspiration from my time in Paris. That was kind of the real time when I discovered European fashion. It's stuck with me since University.

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

Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

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.

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

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

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.

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

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

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

ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments.

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.

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

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.