#professor

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#america #american #american life #between #culture

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #country #dictatorship #during #family

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. ↗

— Rand Paul

#become #children #doctors #grandfather #his

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#committed #had #i #latin #long

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#engineering #english #father #high #high school

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#forty #i #little #oxford #past

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. ↗

— Jewel

#door #focused #hours #i #left

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. ↗

— Richard Mentor Johnson

#christian #christianity #deeds #holiness #lives

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. ↗

— Tristan Tzara

#future #guidance #human #imbecility #literature