Professors Quotes - Page 2

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

I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.

He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word dinosaur. You're not supposed to be getting tenure. You're supposed to be figuring out how you can teach more students at a better price and more effectively. That's your job.

One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

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

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor