University Quotes

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

... 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.'

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

Remote and ineffectual don.

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.