#academic

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#fallen #friends #grace #i #some

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off. ↗

— John Hewson

#answering #habit #had #i #off

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth. ↗

— David Horowitz

#any #could #hallway #institution #mention

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#aristocratic #atmosphere #common #common sense #live

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#after #became #chairman #discovered #existed

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. ↗

— Juan Cole

#been #debates #i #i think #important

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. ↗

— Juan Cole

#another #before #class #go #party

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools. ↗

— Mark Foley

#catholic #catholic schools #compassion #complete #discipline

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#academic #elite #feminist #men #originating