Emeritus Professor Quotes & Sayings

The mind becomes like that on which it feeds. — Elton Trueblood

My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad. — Steve Carell

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies. — Karl Von Frisch

But do not you see," answered Martin, "that he likewise dislikes everything he possesses? It was an observation of Plato, long since, that those are not the best stomachs that reject, without distinction, all sorts of food. — Voltaire

He fell to fighting again with a supernatural levity, like a Mohammedan panting for Paradise. — G.K. Chesterton

But mostly I married her because it made me heartsick to think of her marrying someone else. — Suzanne Rindell

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what. — Carol Piner

As the lifetime-long days passed I began to notice a profound cleansing taking place in myself as we were inmersed in the peaceful Pennsylvania farm valleys. The streams and cotton-clean clouds washed my soul and I felt myself opening up to the world. — Peter Jenkins

I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock

Sara: As professor emeritus, you ought to know why it hurts. But you don't know.
Sara: You know so much, and you don't know anything. — Ingmar Bergman

I don't look like most women in the industry. — Mayim Bialik

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy. — Wilfrid Laurier

PROFESSOR EMERITUS WOTAN Ulm, of the University of Oxford East 5, author of the bestselling if controversial memoir Peer Reviewers and Other Idiots: A Life In Academia, had consented to give a recorded lecture on von Neumann replicators to be carried as briefing material on the US Navy twain USS Brian Cowley. — Terry Pratchett

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur. — Jostein Gaarder

UCLA psychology professor emeritus Albert Mehrabian discovered that face-to-face communication can be broken down into three components: words, tone of voice, and body language. — John C. Maxwell

As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things. — Jack Dangermond

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. — Elisabeth Elliot

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing
no matter the personal cost. — Glenn Beck

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them. — James Caan