(81 quotes found)
“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep”
W. H. Auden
“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
“>in Divintation< Lavender: >squealing< Oooo! Professor look! I found an unknown planet! Professor Trelawny: That is Uranus my dear. Ron: Can I have a look at Ur anus too Lavender?”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen
“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
Douglas Hofstadter
“Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor: Equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.”
Ewald B. Nyquist
“I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets”
Bernard Keble Sandwell
“Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”
Stephen Fry
“Professor Marvel: Professor Marvel never guesses. He knows!”
The Wizard of Oz
“She heard him give his name, and came forward holding out her hand. "Is it you, indeed, Professor Wilson?"”
Willa Sibert Cather
