Academe Today Quotes & Sayings

I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews. — Jesse Eisenberg

Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies ... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply ... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete. — Christopher Hibbert

to most students, what sets little boys and girls apart is all exterior: pants versus skirts. That, and the knowledge that those with pants always come first. — Jenny Nordberg

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too. — Tod Goldberg

The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault — Brandon Mull

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul. — Alphonsus Liguori

Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure. — Gina Greenlee

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels. — Preet Bharara