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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
by Stephen Leacock (Economist, Canadian , born in 1869) keywords: any, appears, assured, forgive, laugh, lord, may, noble, object, professor, think, to-night, which , will 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.
by Charles Lyell (Lawyer, British , born in 1797) keywords: beheld, cast, england, ever, had, huxley, most, once, professor, remarked, return, showed , skull You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.
by Magnus Magnusson (Journalist, Scottish , born in 1929) keywords: encouraged, enjoy, get, immersed, life, particular, pass, professor, say, should, subject, their , university I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
by Barry McCaffrey (Soldier, American , born in 1942) keywords: does, fighting, know, lot, more, national, professor, rumsfeld, security, studies , than 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.
by Linda McCartney (Photographer, American , born in 1941) keywords: album, arrogant, brilliant, coming, day, last, least, mad, out, professor, room, spending, sussex, then, tunes, writing , written In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
by George Andrew Olah (Scientist, American , born in 1927) keywords: academic, added, also, becoming, chairman, cleveland, department, invited, join, life, ohio, professor, reserve, responsibility, returned, summer, university , western Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
by Ezra Pound (Poet, American , born in 1885) keywords: allow, committed, had, latin, long, made, professor, say, since, suicide , would 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.
by Jay Roach (Director, American , born in 1957) keywords: amazing, comedy, commentary, commentator, criticism, disk, even, ever, favorite, film, filmmakers, graduate, guy, had, happen, into, just, laser, off, professor, some, theory, track, went, which , whole Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.
by Mercedes Ruehl (Actor, American , born in 1948) keywords: absolute, also, book, called, come, genders, gone, had, having, his, into, life, necessity, person, professor, read, she, surgery, terms, thirties, through, took, transgender, two, well , written I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
by J. Philippe Rushton (Psychologist, Canadian , born in 1943) keywords: full, made, moved, ontario, professor, then, university, western , where Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
by Edward Said (Writer, Palestinian , born in 1935) keywords: beginning, caught, completely, directly, english, felt, himself, involved, june, life, palestinian, politics, professor, renaissance, someone, started, think, travel, until, up, war, write , young We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
by Carl Sandburg (Poet, American , born in 1878) keywords: browning, enough, guidance, here, needed, poems, poetry, professor, read, robert, themselves , were A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
by Frederick W. Smith (Businessman, American , born in 1944) keywords: better, concept, delivery, earn, feasible, fred, idea, interesting, management, must, order, overnight, paper, professor, proposing, reliable, response, service, smith, student, than, university , yale It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
by Jackie Stewart (Athlete, Scottish , born in 1939) keywords: done, improve, leadership, led, more, movement, off, over, past, person, professor, safety, sid, started, takes, time , years The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
by Donna Tartt (Novelist, American , born in 1963) keywords: bit, classics, consequences, five, him, ideas, learning, novel, professor, seriously, students, studying, take, terrible, things , too 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.
by Kenneth G. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1936) keywords: engineering, grandfather, house, institute, lawyer, massachusetts, mechanical, mother, other, professor, representatives, side, speaker, technology, tennessee , time 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.
by George Woodcock (Writer, Canadian , born in 1912) keywords: canadian, compromise, editing, go, half, literature, nice, professor, reached, received, salary, want , which
