Professoring Quotes & Sayings

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads? — Dave Eggers

Its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive him-self'. — Richard Dawkins

Thomas was baffled by this girl - first the connection he'd felt to her from the very beginning, then the mind-speaking, now this. "Everything about you is weird. You know that, right?"
"Judging by your little hiding spot, I'd say you're not so normal yourself. Like living in the woods, do ya? — James Dashner

Cat lovers take cover. Believe it or not, in the 15th century, there was a 'sport' involving the swinging of cats (by the tail) into the air where they would become moving targets for archers at fetes, fayres and country festivals. Crowded festivals would be described as having no room to 'swing the cat' as revellers would be in danger of being hit by stray arrows. When — Albert Jack

His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible. — Thomas W. Martin

One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from ... me. — Jenny Lawson

With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money — Robert Kiyosaki

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me. — Josh Groban

A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine. — Craig Groeschel

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it. — Richard M. Nixon

Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality. — Beatrice Warde

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The courage of husbands is directly proportionate to the proximity of the wife. — Steven Erikson

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist. — Brian Cox