University Quotes

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

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

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

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.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

I do yoga, like, 20 minutes a day, but the routine that I practice I initially watched on YouTube, like, two years ago. I'm still doing that same thing. YouTube University, man. It's the best.

Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

Trump University is just one of the many lines of attack that were opened up last night, giving a preview of what's to come in the general if [Donald] Trump is indeed the Republican nominee.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.