#professor

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. ↗

— James Broughton

#poets #professors #rarest #real

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ↗

— Evan Esar

#america #athlete #average #believes #earns

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#grandfather #house #institute #lawyer #massachusetts

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ↗

— Heraclitus

#assistance #greek #i #i am #librarians

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

— Tony Campolo

#being #i #minister #professor #serve

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. ↗

— Albert Camus

#after #best #books #collection #days

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#die #fool #generation #go #lukewarm

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#faculties #just #lose #never #old

By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry #harry-potter #humor #j-k-rowling #order-of-the-phoenix

If I were a professor, I’d bring my cat to class. I’d be silent until it meowed, and as soon as it did, I’d stand up and say, “Lecture’s over.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #college #funny #humor #lecture