Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Bok

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

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Tony Campolo

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Ken Robinson

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Kathy Reichs

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.

Hermann Hesse

... 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.'

Charles Caleb Colton

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

Charles Caleb Colton

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Dickens

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Charles Dickens

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

Charles Stross

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

Charles Stanley

To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Daniel Cabrera

We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.

Willy Taveras

Speed has always been my game. It's how I got signed out of the Dominican Republic and it's what got me to the big leagues. If I'm going to have a long career, it's going to be because I can run.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Alphonse de Lamartine

At twenty every one is republican.

Allen West

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Ambrose Bierce

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.