#professor

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

— Stephen Fry

#faculties #just #lose #never #old

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#afraid #am #any #been #college

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. ↗

— Maya Lin

#both #college #made #me #parents

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#cast #england #ever #had #huxley

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#all day #arrogant #brilliant #coming #day

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fleas #must #professor #theory

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

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

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#books #god #had #harvard #invented

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