Quotes by Professors - Page 2

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Mason Cooley
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.
Joyce Carol Oates
There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
Mark Van Doren
One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today but you will be a great deal older.
Melvin Helitzer
To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Survival is triumph enough.
Harry Crews
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Brander Matthews
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.
Christine Downing
A good sweat with the blood pounding through my body makes me feel alive revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.
Arthur Dobrin
With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.
Mason Cooley
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
Sir William Blackstone
We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
Toni Morrison
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge
Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
Susan M. Dodd
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.
Harvey Oxenhorn
When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."
Melvin Helitzer
Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
A. Eustace Haydon
God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.
John Gardner
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
Norman Cousins
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
Mason Cooley
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
Toni Morrison
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.
Robert Hillyer
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
The essence of man is imperfection.
Norman Cousins
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
Norman Cousins
Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you.
Mary Bly
I mix them with my brains sir.
John Opie
When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Joyce Carol Oates
I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.
Melvin Helitzer
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm talent and wit. Unfortunately he couldn't be here tonight so instead . . .
Melvin Helitzer
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
Norman Cousins
A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
Mary Bly
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge
Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
Susan M. Dodd
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.
Harvey Oxenhorn
When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."
Melvin Helitzer
Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
A. Eustace Haydon
God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.
John Gardner
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
Norman Cousins
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
Mason Cooley
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
Toni Morrison
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.
Robert Hillyer
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
The essence of man is imperfection.
Norman Cousins
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
Norman Cousins
Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you.
Mary Bly
I mix them with my brains sir.
John Opie
When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Joyce Carol Oates
I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.
Melvin Helitzer
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm talent and wit. Unfortunately he couldn't be here tonight so instead . . .
Melvin Helitzer
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
Norman Cousins
A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
Mary Bly
The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.
Hugh MacLennan
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
Mason Cooley
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone