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Quotes About University

I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in the same way. I loved being at Bristol, but I missed the thrill of being on set.
~ Will Poulter
The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.
~ Chris Mullin
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
~ J. Anthony Lukas
We once played Strathclyde University's student union where they had a crash barrier in front of the stage. I thought that was a little over the top until the gig started and there was this crush at the front. They were even throwing beer bottles - it was wild. You'd have thought we were a rock group instead of a barbershop quartet.
~ Sam Lloyd
I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.
~ George Blanda
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
~ Harold Pinter
When Princeton plays Harvard, I'm rooting for Princeton, of course. Go Tigers!
~ Shira Goodman
one factor behind his company's innovative products is that it employs graduates straight from university.
~ Sahar Hashemi
The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
~ Samuel Butler
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
~ Samuel Butler
wish to express my sincerest and most heartfelt thanks to the Jayne Memorial Foundation and its board of trustees, which selected me as the annual lecturer for 1942 to speak on the subject of Sumerian mythology. I also acknowledge my gratitude to the board of managers of the University Museum; to Dr. George C. Vaillant, its director; to Mr. Horace H . F. Jayne, his predecessor; and to Professor Leon Legrain, the curator of its Babylonian section, for their scientific
~ Samuel Noah Kramer
Iraq under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.
~ Samuel Noah Kramer
I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.
~ Samuel Wilson
What does he do for a living? Is he retired?" "He took early retirement as a professor at the University of Barcelona after his wife died. He's writing some kind of history book." "Okaay. And is this the real deal, long term,
~ Sandra Hill
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
~ Sara Paretsky
Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
~ Nathan Fillion
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
~ Ralph Allen
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
~ Koichi Tanaka
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
~ Martin Fleischmann
siguiera recibiendo el sueldo que le correspondía como profesor universitario cuando cumplió la edad de la jubilación
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives...
~ Marisha Pessl
Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.
~ Mark Helprin
he was a prizeman, and had gotten medals and scholarships, but on account of the excellence of his general conduct. He lived with the best set—he incurred no debts—he was fond of society, but able to avoid low society—liked his glass of wine, but was never known to be drunk; and, above all things, was one of the most popular men in the university.
~ Anthony Trollope
En 1878, reçu médecin à l'Université de Londres, je me rendis à Netley pour suivre les cours prescrits aux chirurgiens de l'armée ; et là, je complétai mes études. On me désigna ensuite, comme aide-major, pour le 5e régiment de fusiliers de Northumberland en garnison aux Indes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle