Student Quotes

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

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.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.