Professors famous quotes

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

#Mom #Dad #Professors

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

#Crime #Professors #Mathematical

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Real #Peter #Professors

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

#Years #Half #Professors

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

#Way #Taught #Professors

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

#Father #Film #Professors

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
-- Donald Sadoway

#Want #Professors #Chalk

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
-- Emile M. Cioran

#Writing #Philosopher #Professors

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
-- Erich Segal

#Sacred #Professors #Priests

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.
-- Frank Knight

#Mind #Economics #Professors

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.
-- Galileo Galilei

#Religion #Astronomy #Professors

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.
-- Garrett Fort

#Mind #Superstitions #Professors

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

#Lectures #Habit #Professors

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

#Disappear #Should #Professors

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Students #Professors #Feels

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.
-- Jerry Lewis

#Creative #Film #Professors

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.
-- John C. Baez

#Statistics #Firsts #Professors

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
-- John Henry Carver

#Chance #Professors #Shops

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.
-- Judy Chicago

#Males #Done #Professors

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.
-- Judy Tenuta

#Philosophy #Professors

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
-- Jules de Goncourt

#Bread #Professors

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
-- Jules Verne

#Feet #Savages #Professors

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.
-- Jürgen Moltmann

#Taught #Students #Professors

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.
-- Justin Cronin

#Long #Houston #Professors

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
-- Karl von Frisch

#Study #Professors

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.
-- Kathy Reichs

#Giving #Hook #Professors

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.
-- Mike Judge

#Saws #Professors #Stooges

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

#Done #Graves #Professors

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
-- Niall Ferguson

#Teacher #Strategy #Professors

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
-- Norbert Wiener

#Fifty #Speak #Professors

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.
-- Otto von Bismarck

#Art #Aries #Professors

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'
-- Pete Seeger

#Dad #Argument #Professors

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
-- Phyllis Schlafly

#Hate #America #Professors

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.
-- Randall Jarrell

#Men #Thinking #Professors

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Art #Speak #Professors

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

#Ducks #Example #Professors

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.
-- Robert Huber

#Professors

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.
-- Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#Firsts #Bordeaux #Professors

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
-- Seth MacFarlane

#Sense Of Humor #Professors #Denzel

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.
-- Stanislaw Ulam

#Pairs #Hundred #Professors

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Done #Taught #Professors

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
-- Stephen Fry

#Professors #Faculty

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.
-- Stephen Leacock

#Professors #Theory

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
-- Stephen Leacock

#Latin #Professors

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
-- Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#Professors #Universe

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor
-- Tom Berenger

#Actors #Professors

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.
-- Vanna Bonta

#World #Professors

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
-- W. H. Auden

#Poetry #Professors #Poetry Is

I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
-- Willard Wigan

#Hair #Mad #Professors

One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants.
-- Astra Taylor

#People #Professors #Horns

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

#Peter #Professors #Wells

I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.
-- Mary J. Miller

#I've Learned #Professors #Has Beens

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor

#Lawyer #Professors #Young

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
-- Ben Barnes

#Dad #Doctors #Professors

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
-- Brother Ali

#Listening #Professors #Feels