Quotes of: Academically Keyword

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

James Dyson

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

Michael J. Fox

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

Donald Johanson

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.

Douglas Lain

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.

Azar Nafisi

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

Alex Payne

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

Chelsea Clinton

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Noam Chomsky

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Jerry Saltz

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Mason Cooley

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Peter Straub

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

Ron Chernow

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

Rajib Lochan Dhibar

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

Stephen Cole Kleene

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Kgalema Motlanthe

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Michelle Richmond

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

James W. Black

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

Jon Huertas

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

Alan Bennett

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

Jodie Foster

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

Sami Gayle