University Auto Quotes & Sayings

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms — Aristotle.

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred. — Stephen Levine

I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous. — Shane McAnally

I go to an acting class every Sunday. — Paz De La Huerta

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it — Robert Fulghum

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. — Herbert Marshall

Thimerosol is the preservative in immunisation shots, so anytime you get an immunisation shot you are undergoing the same procedure that in the University Lab we used to give animals auto-immune disease
give a little tiny injection of mercury. And when you get an immunisation shot you are getting a little tiny dose of mercury there. — Hal Huggins

I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again. — Andrew Gould

After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter ruin than to give the people a beautiful auto-da-fe; for it had been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking. — Voltaire

Across industries and countries, there's a strong inverse correlation between performance and job security. Actors and directors are fired at the end of each film, so they have to deliver every time. Junior professors are fired by default after a few years unless the university chooses to grant them tenure. Professional athletes know they'll be pulled if they play badly for just a couple games. At the other end of the scale (at least in the US) are auto workers, New York City schoolteachers, and civil servants, who are all nearly impossible to fire. The trend is so clear that you'd have to be willfully blind not to see it. — Paul Graham