Universities Quotes

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.