#professor

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#father #financial #manager #mother #office

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

— James Broughton

#poets #professors #rarest #real

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #communist #i #i am #local

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#frankly #get #living #lot #make

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. ↗

— David Eddings

#degree #had #happy #i #novel

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

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#ball player #because #being #college #college professor

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. ↗

— George Woodcock

#compromise #editing #go #half #i

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#back #because #become #could #degree

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#democratic #doing #example #expose #free