Professors Quotes - Page 15

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

Jay Roach

Track, Guy, Criticism

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

Kool Moe Dee

Challenges, Serial Killer, Killers

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Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

Derek Bok

Thinking, Practice, Effort

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Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.

Roy Romer

Issues, Use, Classroom

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I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.

Miriam Margolyes

Done, Graves, Knows

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

Poppy Z. Brite

Mother, Father, Office

"POPPY Z. BRITE: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. January, 1998.

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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

Carlos Slim

Technology, Digital, Internet

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Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

Galileo Galilei

Laughter, Philosophy, Science

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There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, he’s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.

Matt Damon

Law, Nsa, Democracy

"Matt Damon: Obama 'broke up with me'" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. August 08, 2013.

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I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

Tibor Fischer

Events, Half, Literature

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These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.

Philip Showalter Hench

Years, Medicine, Physicians

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There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

Kenny Smith

Philosophical, Passion, Issues

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, College, Thinking

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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Art, Speak

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.250

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Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their drawing boards. As a result, they lose touch with the substance of their rapidly developing subject. They lose the ability to design; they lose sight of what is essential; and they resign themselves to teach academically challenging puzzles.

Niklaus Wirth

Sight, Drawing, Design

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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

W. H. Auden

Poetry, Poetry Is

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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

Oscar Wilde

Lying, College, Oxford

Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.231, Wordsworth Editions

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A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

John Edensor Littlewood

Math, Needs, Habit

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I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those drunk chicks who killed that one dude because he wouldn't have sex with them.' His professors must be so proud. I asked him if he knew what maenads were, and instead of correctly answering that it was just another name for Bacchants, he bizarrely thought I was referring to my own testicles - as in, "'Ere now, mate, don't swing that bat around me nads.'" The conversation deteriorated quickly after that.

Kevin Hearne

Sex, Swings, Names

Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two”, p.50, Del Rey

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(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

Jerry Lewis

Creative, Film, Labor

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Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education

Yvor Winters

Book, Men, Defense

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Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

Philip Warren Anderson

Brother, Father, Agriculture

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Mark Twain

College, Brain, Lectures

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There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Henry David Thoreau

Philosophy, Philosopher

'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

Barack Obama

Mean, Law, President

"Obama a Constitutional Law Professor?" by Joe Miller, www.factcheck.org. March 28, 2008.

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