“It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.” UniversityNailsForeheadsMonologuesUsc Author:Zachary Quinto
“I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.” WantLongI CanLove IsTeachingStudentsUniversityAthleteCoachingTennesseeLove TeachingStudent Athlete Author:Pat Summitt
“My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's work. My Dad took a night class from him at the University of Toledo. Without that class, I wouldn't have become a photographer, because my Dad came home and taught me what he learned in class.” HomeNightClassTaughtDadPhotographerUniversityMy DadNewspapersBladesWorkshopsToledo Author:Sam Abell
“For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.” ThinkingExampleCollegeCamerasUniversityKentuckyDorms Author:Sam Abell
“In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his mouth was "The central theme of American Literature is an attempt to reconcile what we've done to the New World." wrote that down in my notebook, and thought, "What is he talking about?" But that's what I think about now. The New World and what we've done to it.” ThinkingWorldFirstsDoneLiteratureTalkingClassMouthsUniversitySentencesThemeProfessorsNew WorldNotebookReconcileFirst ClassKentuckyAmerican Literature Author:Sam Abell
“I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.” WritingWellsKindImportantCertainThreeResearchUniversityAcademicPublishingThree ThingsAcademic Writing Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.” NeedsStillsAbleCitiesSittingUniversityFlatsProfessorsVisitingCampusSitting DownHong KongNomadic Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.” YearsHas BeensFactsLastsTeacherCollegeUniversityAcademicScholarColleges And Universities Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.” SpeakTeachingResearchUniversityCaliforniaRetirementProfessorsSantaBarbaraSanta Barbara Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.” WorldYearsEndsFilmTalkingPossibilitySeriousFineMetsTenYears AgoUniversityShootingEncountersEnd Of The WorldKoreaNorth KoreaCambridgeAntarcticaCambridge University Author:Werner Herzog
“I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.” AbleFilmAreasProgramScientistLet MeUniversityJointsNorth KoreaKoreanSubwayKindergartenVolcanoesCambridgeNorth KoreanCambridge University Author:Werner Herzog
“I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics had replaced religion in the economy of my enthusiasms but I had no idea what to study. My boarding school emphasized languages which I was bad at, and deemphasized math and science which I was good at.” IdeasHomeSchoolLanguageReligiousEconomyStudyUniversityMathMilesEnthusiasmNo IdeaReplacedTheologicalMath And Science Author:Dale Jamieson
“I want to make college debt-free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.” IfsWantPlansCollegeBillsUniversityDebtTuitionDebt Free Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.” PeopleThinkingWayMadeIdeasYoungViewsPartyStudentsGrewMetsGrew UpWingsUniversityConservativeExtremesWay Of ThinkingRight WingCountrysideBudapest Author:Csanad Szegedi
“I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.” IfsKnowsStatesMightWantedCommunityLevelsCollegePaidUniversityGradesHarvardAttendanceCommunity College Author:Mitch Albom
“I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.” DegreesUniversityFortyOhio Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Well everyone's careers is a series of steps, but being the President of the Young Liberals or the President of a Liberal society at university is an important step in the Liberal Party in terms of being noticed and making your name known.” WellsImportantYoungNamesPresidentTermPartyKnownStepsCareersSeriesUniversityLiberal Party Author:George Brandis
“A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner - it was unforgettable!” BelievePhilosophyNightI BelieveCenturyEventsInvolvedUniversityPhilosopherClubsDinnerSatSpokes20th CenturyInvitedAll NightBerlinOxfordDiningUnforgettableOxford University Author:George Brandis
“The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.” WayLooksJobsLife IsTrainingUniversityWrong WayJob Training Author:Robert Greene
“I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.” WayGivingBookAbleTurnsSpeechUniversityPresidentialSouthernGood WayMethodists Author:George W. Bush
“The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender.” ThinkingWayImportantGoneTheoryImportant ThingsUniversityGenderAcademyTheorists Author:Judith Butler
“The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.” TryingLittlesStatesUnitedCitiesUnited StatesStrangeRaisesUniversityCornersGenderActiveSexualityAppropriateScholarScholarship Author:Judith Butler
“Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.” WorldYearsSaidMomentsHomeSchoolHalfWake UpLeavingUniversityInjusticePrivilegeAwakeningFlamesBubblesMarineMerchantsMichiganPrepsSophomoreWake Up CallLeaving HomeSophomore YearUniversity Of MichiganMerchant Marine Author:Bill Ayers
“Fairly apolitical. Kind of aspiring to participate in life. I'm 18-19 years old. Wanting to dive into the world and finding the world opening for me in ways that were unimaginable. I didn't sleep for the whole first year at university because it was too much going on. Too many films to see, too many concerts to go to.” WorldWayYearsFirstsKindWholeFilmSleepToo MuchFindingsUniversityOpeningConcertsUnimaginableApolitical Author:Bill Ayers
“[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.” YearsFirstsWholeUniversityAwakeningGreat Times Author:Bill Ayers
“When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama. So that's kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would've said, "I don't have any politics. I'm a business person." Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.” IfsKindPersonsSaidSocialTermViewsMomDadRepublicanUnderstoodRoseWorkersUniversityMy DadMy MomBarackPostsVotingMainstreamModeratesCabinetsMichiganSocial WorkerBusiness PersonDwightDwight EisenhowerUniversity Of MichiganVoting Republican Author:Bill Ayers
“People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.” PeopleMeanFantasyWrittenMagicUniversityRealismMagic Realism Author:Terry Pratchett
“That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.” WayKindWarGrowthGroupsStudentsGrewOrganizationDemocraticUniversityDrivenAll KindsVietnam1960sVietnam WarMichiganDemocratic SocietySmall GroupsUniversity Of Michigan Author:Bill Ayers
“So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.” HomePresidentStepsUniversityHarborsCampusEcstaticMichiganUniversity Of Michigan Author:Bill Ayers
“The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will end. And I'm certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.” SaidTwoWarEndsNightCertainPresidentFourPlansStudentsMonthsKingsVictoryUniversityCongratulationsLutherHarvardTwo MonthsSwampsGreat VictoryKissingerHenry Kissinger Author:Bill Ayers
“The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.” IfsWayChildrenSometimesWholeProblemSchoolCertainCultureBeliefStrongAcceptingStyleGoes OnUniversityPatternsExpectedTendenciesExceptionGraduatesImplicitGraduate School Author:Noam Chomsky
“The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.” PeopleFirstsHelpingAmericaNumbersMiddleStudentsOffersFirst TimeVictimUniversityProtectionUsualElitesImperialismMiddle America Author:Noam Chomsky
“Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .” FiveTrumpHundredCourtIncludingUniversityFortyOutstandingLawsuit Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.” WantUniversitySemester Author:Truman Capote
“The ranks of educated professional swelled as more Americans went to college and more Americans sort of adopted a more cosmopolitan lifestyle and worldview. And as the Democrats were looking for an alternative to the unions who no longer seemed like a large enough base for the party, they found the educated who veered more toward a progressive cultural outlook, who may have had - may have been working in the financial sector, in entertainment, in media, in universities. That became really the rank and file of the Democratic Party over a long period of time.” MayLongHas BeensEnoughFoundPartyMediaCollegePeriodsUnionsDemocraticDemocratUniversityFinancialEntertainmentLifestyleEducatedAlternativesProgressiveAdoptedOutlookFilesDemocratic PartyWorldviewLong Periods Of Time Author:George Packer
“I'm going to try to get everybody who makes less than $125,000 in their family, which is the vast majority of people, to be able to go to a public college or university totally tuition-free. And if you make more than that, debt-free.” PeopleIfsTryingAbleCollegeMajorityUniversityDebtTuitionDebt Free Author:Hillary Clinton
“When Ben Carson said that he would remove all federal funding for universities that had 'extreme political bias.' Who would decide what political bias was, and what is 'extreme'? That kind of policing of ideas has a striking resemblance to the black list, and that's what happened during that era.” KindSaidIdeasPoliticalBlackHappenedUniversityExtremesListsErasRemoveBiasFundingResemblanceBen Carson Author:Jay Roach
“[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.” ShouldAnswersNew YorkMarkDemocratUniversityDebateProfessorsColumbiaColumbia University Author:Steve Inskeep
“I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.” KnowsLawWhiteCallingUniversityProfessorsArticlesColumbiaColumbia University Author:Steve Inskeep
“Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of ideas and political thought.” WayIdeasPoliticalParticularUniversityReach Out Author:Mark Schlissel
“I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.” ThinkingWayBookWholePressesUniversityTreatmentTerrificOxfordOxford UniversitySweeney Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great frustration until I was about 19 years old at Tuskegee University. My brother became a Christian along with my father and they shared the Gospel with me on occasion.” YearsChristianFatherEconomicAwarenessIdentityBrotherGrewGrew UpRegardUniversityOccasionsMy BrotherFrustrationRacial IdentityEconomic Status Author:Sho Baraka
“When you get talking to people in positions of power, you find that often their worldview is framed either in terms of their disciplinary studies at university and/or the country where they first got interest in development.” PeopleFirstsCountryTermInterestTalkingStudyPositionDevelopmentUniversityWorldviewFramedPosition Of Power Author:Duncan Green
“Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.” WantLooksArtSchoolAcceptingStudentsHundredUniversityStatisticsApplicationArt School Author:Ai Weiwei
“I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.” WritingYearsStatesStoriesCreativeProgramTwentiesUniversityShort StoryCreative WritingSan FranciscoAnd OffWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Andrew Lam
“The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.” KnowsYearsMeanChildrenStatesProblemGovernmentJobsPastMillionsIssuesPolicySolutionsConsequenceWesternUniversityCorruptionChinaSolveWelfareGraduatesImmenseDemographicsWelfare State Author:Ai Weiwei
“Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems.” CharacterProblemSubjectsApproachGainsUniversityTechniqueFantastic Author:Richard Branson
“The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.” ThinkingYearsFunProcessRecordsStudentsBuildingEverydayUniversityTreatedMagazinesSatisfyingVirginsUniversity Education Author:Richard Branson
“In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a whole series of elaborate steps that one has to - has to encounter in order to even begin to do research. There's an attorney. If you want to photocopy material from that archive, you have to get permission from the attorney beforehand.” IfsWantWholeOrderStepsCasesMaterialsResearchSeriesUniversityEncountersPermissionAlexAttorneyTennesseeArchivesHaley Author:Manning Marable
“It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.” LittlesStatesSchoolWhiteUnitedUnited StatesRocksArmySouthUniversityDozenTroopsMississippiUnited States ArmyLittle Rock Author:Malcolm X