#academic

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#destruction #i #implements #interested #mass

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know? ↗

— Kerry Washington

#always #background #because #been #come

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. ↗

— Loretta Young

#branches #common #education #many #others

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work. ↗

— Toby Young

#aptitude #being #catering #even #had

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#fallen #friends #grace #i #some

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#accustomed #british #early #few #force

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#aristocratic #atmosphere #common #common sense #live

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#after #became #chairman #discovered #existed