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I'm fucking my teacher." "Jesus -- Pam Godwin
Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise. -- Tyrone Hayes
I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs. -- Robert Benchley
I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project. -- Jean-Marie Lehn
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. -- Thomas Carlyle
on that more than anything else. But crazy pants Professor aside, -- J. Lynn
I love that you love me, professor." "I love loving you, beauty. -- Nina Lane
He looked around circumspectly, then introduced himself: Professor Camestres. At the question "Professor of what?" he made a vague gesture, as if urging us to exercise greater discretion. -- Umberto Eco
Tut, tut," said Professor Umbridge. "That won't do, now, will it? I should like you, please, to reply 'Good afternoon, Professor Umbridge.' One more time, please. Good afternoon, class! -- J.k. Rowling
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. -- Allan Bloom
Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk. -- Donald Sadoway
My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu. -- Frank Zappa
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. -- Umberto Eco
That's why Professor Little, the consummate introvert, lectures with such passion. Like a modern-day Socrates, he loves his students deeply; opening their minds and attending to their well-being are two of his core personal projects. When -- Susan Cain
TEACHER
Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like
STUDENT
I wud like
TEACHER
To feed your fingertips
STUDENT
To feed yur fingerteeps
TEACHER
To the wolverines. -- Michael O'donoghue
We are not shooting enough professors -- Vladimir Lenin
Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level. -- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry. -- Ryoji Noyori
Wherever you go, there's your teacher. -- Marina Endicott
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher. -- Ajahn Chah
Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me! -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
It occurred to me that professors must get so they unconsciously act the way people think professors ought to act; -- Jack Finney
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same. -- David Horowitz
Everybody's a teacher if you listen. -- Doris Roberts
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. -- Carl Linnaeus
I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken. -- Mary J. Miller
Of course I'm all right, professor. I had to be. A is A.- John Galt -- Ayn Rand
Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next. -- Pete Carroll
I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment. -- George Stigler
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. -- Elbert Hubbard
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece. -- Abraham Verghese
When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. -- Tina Brown
I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor. -- Tony Campolo
What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties! -- Charles Baudelaire
I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying. -- Condoleezza Rice
Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples. -- Wilbert J. Mckeachie
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. -- Jewel
I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy. -- Rachel Caine
Professors have a lot of power."
I almost smiled. "Even medieval history professors?"
"Especially medieval history professors," he assured me.
"Knights on horseback and all that?"
A responding smile tugged at his mouth. "And damsels in distress. -- Nina Lane
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. -- Wallace Stegner
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. -- Henri Lebesgue
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself. -- Wayne W. Dyer
Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals
TWELVE PLUS ONE,
And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN,
You will find my DICTIONARY
is quite INDICATORY.
If you want to read my story, just look ...
THEN UNREAD. -- Pseudonymous Bosch
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds. -- Pete Seeger
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor. -- Stephen Leacock
Oh, so slimy bastard shithead had been a lecturer? -- Tim Lebbon
Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors. -- H.l. Mencken
I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students. -- Arne Naess
Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere. -- Philip Pullman
I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward. -- Christopher Bollen
I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor. -- Sarah Parcak
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors. -- Thomas Sowell
You had me in your phone as Professor Hunter? -- Ivy Smoak
I was at a speaking engagement for MIT ... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!' -- Russell Johnson
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. -- Franz Grillparzer
He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin. -- James Patterson
I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again. -- Richard Russo
In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. They -- Stephen Leacock
- Be careful, professor. We don't yet know whose hands the town is in.
- Whoever they belong to, they're the same hands. -- Evelio Rosero
Teacher: a master who, through personal example, inspires students to rebel against learning. -- Bauvard
Philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization ... but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them? -- Isaiah Berlin
The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not. -- Frederick Lenz
Some are professors and others are possessors. -- Lawrence Kennedy
Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher. -- Steve Perry
He's our chief science guru. Dr. -- Robert J. Crane
I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma. -- Donna Nelson
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research. -- Jean Piaget
Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ! -- Charles Spurgeon
I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance. -- Vijay Seshadri
Even the Teachers Have Teachers -- Robin S. Sharma
With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another. -- Stanislaw Ulam
I was a teacher once. -- Nita Ambani
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. -- Sun Myung Moon
Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself. -- Lance Olsen
science teacher. "The police had me in custody, an innocent man, a victim of circumstances, and because they had no evidence at -- James Patterson
The instructor was a man of middle age, in his early fifties; his name was Archer Sloane, and he came to his task of teaching with a seeming disdain and contempt, as if he perceived between his knowledge and what he could say a gulf so profound that he would make no effort to close it. -- John Edward Williams
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer. -- Daniel Goldstein
Typically [professors] live in their heads. ... They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It's a way of getting their head to meetings. -- Ken Robinson
Incredible," said Constable Dawes. "Impossible," said Sergeant Michaels. "Elementary," said my professor with a grin. -- Angela Misri
Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights. -- Les Back
My finest student, and also my greatest disappointment. -- Anthony Ryan
If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you. -- Terry H. Anderson
A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all ... but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection. -- Frederick Lenz
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying. -- Chick Corea
Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have to spray your fucking brains against the wall, too? Thanks! -- Max Allan Collins
Drew, a friend helping Loren in her research, "...This may be the most important class I've never paid for nor received credit hours for taking. Let's lift our glasses to Professor Finkel! -- Kimberly Loving Ross
I guess I'll see you third period, Mr. Cooper," she says as she exits the room.
The way she refers to me as "Mr. Cooper" makes me scowl. I hate the fact that I'm her teacher. I'd so much rather be her Will. -- Colleen Hoover
I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor. -- Tom Berenger
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which. -- Joyce Cary
And I suppose you're going to sit beside me every single class?"
"I don't know. You seem like an angry student. I'm not sure I want the prof associating me with you. -- K.a. Tucker
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first -- Gary L. Francione
The student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams." -- Paul Halmos
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. -- Thomas Carlyle
a history teacher. I work, -- Danielle Monsch
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement. -- Michael Dirda
Who is your teacher? If you give only one name, then you are not a good student! And who is a good student? He is whose teacher is everyone and everything! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
