The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. — Dan Rather
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. — W. H. Auden
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
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. — Richard Hofstadter
[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna get an A on the test. — Rick Riordan
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. — Jacob Bronowski
The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun. — Richard Cushing
The only trouble was that the scripture master, Mr. Ebenzar, was a fanatic. — R.K. Narayan
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. — Louis Kahn
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. — Jacob Bronowski
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. — Paul the Apostle
MIT is the cream of the crop, there are no second-stringers there. Even the janitors at MIT have master's degrees. — Ronald McNair
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. — Sinclair Lewis
Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge. — Cheryl Richardson
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. — Benjamin Disraeli
Short Dean Quotes
I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife — Woody Allen
I was a sober as the next guy. The only problem is the next guy was Dean Martin — Red Skelton
Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean. — Glenn Frey
I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him. — Ranbir Kapoor
Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up. — Mickey Mantle
I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin. — Joe E. Lewis
I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day. — Ville Valo
James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time. — Andy Warhol
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. — Sydney Smith
James Dean Quotes
I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan. — Sebastian Stan
Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me. — Al Pacino
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over. — Elvis Presley
I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman. — Dane DeHaan
James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers. — Emile Hirsch
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy. — Terence Stamp
When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal. — Robert Hass
Theres a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody. — Dane DeHaan
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed. — Ansel Elgort
I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet. — Casper Van Dien
Jimmy Dean Quotes
Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble. — Dennis Hopper
I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. — Tab Hunter
A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me. — Liz Sheridan
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean. — Jimmy Dean
The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years. — Brian Henson
Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed. — John Lennon
Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean. — David Essex
I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles. — Nikki Sixx
My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment. — James Wolk
Dear friend,
Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. — Al-Ghazali
There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses. — Dean Ambrose
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary. — Red Buttons
It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser. — James David Vance
This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven) — Dean Hughes
Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together. — Susan Estrich
It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint. — Brian Jones
I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean? — Branch Rickey
[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies. — Frank Sinatra
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract. — Red Smith
Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. — Jason Kidd
Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. — Tom Waits
Dr Dean Burk, who has spent more than fifty years in cancer research, mainly at the National Cancer Institute states: 'More people have died in the last thirty years from cancer connected with fluoridation than all the military deaths in the entire history of the United States.' — Dean Burk
I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone. — Tim Gunn
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. — Soren Kierkegaard
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door — James A. Michener
I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones. I remember when I was a kid, I watched an interview with Dennis Hopper talking about Jimmy Dean on the set of Rebel Without A Cause. Jimmy said to him, "If you've got to cry in a scene, you've got to cry. Make it real." And that's all that I believe in. — Andrew Lincoln
A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit. — Gwen Ifill
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them. — Learned Hand
Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together. — Tommy Rettig
I believe [Dean Martin] is underestimated as a vocalist only because it seemed like what he was doing looked easy - but it isn't and it stands the test of time. — Michael Buble
I saw this train driver and said, 'I wanna go to Paris.' He said, 'Eurostar?' I said, 'Well I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin.' Mind you, at least the Eurostar's comfy. It's murder on the Orient Express isn't it? — Tim Vine
The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in. — Lloyd Kaufman
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again. — Ruth Buzzi
And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth. — Leo Durocher
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