#professor

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#committed #had #i #latin #long

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

#comedy #commentary #commentator #criticism #disk

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#category #mechanic #professor #same #talks

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#day #decisions #finance #group #had

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there. ↗

— Robert Klein

#difference #drama #drama school #father #go

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#i #made #moved #ontario #professor

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#been #before #born #grand #had

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#enough #guidance #here #needed #poems

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#around #clothes #experts #friend #go