#scholar

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#fell #got #gymnastics #i #life

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#both #enjoy #enjoy reading #experience #i

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ↗

— Robert Burns

#collar #gentleman #him #his #lettered

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

#desires #diligent #himself #love #loves

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#humblest #nature #painter #scholar #scholars

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#difference #fuzzy #merely #other #reasoning

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#film #look #only #scholars #see

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#commonly #great #great men #men #nor