Quotes of: Research-universities Keyword

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

John Updike

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Derek Bok

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

Don Campbell

The Universe has your back. Instead of trying to control the outcome, just enjoy the journey.

Dawn Gluskin

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

David Hare

In the universe, nothing is either beautiful or ugly, but our perception and thinking makes it so.

Debasish Mridha

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

John Cusack

Training is a universal right. It's not just targeted at those with the worst skill levels.

Jeff Denham

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

John Green

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

John B. S. Haldane

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Christopher Hitchens

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

Charles B. Rangel

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Edward M. Lerner

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

Gertrude Stein

Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.

Kurt Busiek

By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.

Kimberley Nixon

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

Quentin Crisp

Mr. Universe: You can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.

Serenity

Mr. Universe: You guys always bring me the very best violence.

Serenity