Honours Degree Quotes & Sayings

I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it. — Matt Frewer

I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. — Robert Wyatt

I've got a young man who works for me who says you don't need to discover your dreams - you need to recover them. — Dave Ramsey

mouth," says Jack, as sharp as a needle. — Joseph Jacobs

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to love biochemistry research, although I was just getting my feet wet in laboratory research. — Elizabeth Blackburn

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it ... you cannot do everything. — Phillips Brooks

Well, suppose intelligent people don't believe, but that's from intelligence, and you, I say, squirt that you are, what do you understand about God? You were taught by some student, and if he'd taught you to light icon lamps, you'd do it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You killed the she-wolf. It should be nothing at all to kill the pup. — Victoria Aveyard

Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours. — Paul Keating

His name was Ed. His nickname was Scrambled Ed. On leaving school he had taken a year out to decide what he wanted to study at University. The year passed and he still hadn't decided but went to University anyway.

'Academic' is defined as 'of, or relating to, institutionalized education and scholarship'. The same word, at the same time, also means 'having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging or theoretical'.
The latter definition seemed the most appropriate for Ed's university career which was a mash up of drinking, diving, surfing, kayaking and having his heart-broken. All washed down with a few pints.
After three years of that he was awarded a second class joint honours degree which he put in the recycling bin and went in search of something that would make him feel better. — Matt Padwick

Tell people - and they may forget ...
show them - they may remember ...
but involve them and they will understand. — Confucius

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. — Thomas Paine

So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it. — Emily St. John Mandel

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening. — Hakuin Ekaku