891 University Quotes for You to Enjoy

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland. Mario Botta

Architecture State Took Circumstances Favourable Some Propose Advantage Academy Foundation Switzerland University

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities. Mario Vargas Llosa

Corruption Cruelty Extravagance Latin Latin America Course Because His Dictators America Fifties Full Figure University

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university. Mark Shields

You Men White White House Prestigious Prominent Seeking Both New House Schools New England Private Families Boarding Products England Two University

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection. Martin Fleischmann

Time Protection Thought Secret Take Had Development Because Still Were Patent Inform Might Working Stan Utah Now Need University

In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm. Mary Beard

College Men Completing Colleagues Classics Almost Almost All Couple Returned Cambridge Were Years Office Department After Dorm Teach Earlier University

I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it. Matt Frewer

Teacher You School Degree Girl Biology Drama Sold Honours High Kinda High School More Had Hour Know Course Said Always Go Lined Lot Up Canadian Get Acting Enjoyed University

During my senior year, when I was attending the University of Michigan and getting a drama degree, the Purple Rose Theatre was in its second season. The year before was the company's inaugural season. I, of course, wanted to work there. It was started by a really prominent local actor, Jeff Daniels. Matt Letscher

Work Theatre Degree Year Before Rose Drama Local Prominent Purple Attending Course Michigan Getting Senior Senior Year Wanted Really Jeff Company Season Actor Second Started University

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective. Matthew Desmond

People Perspective College Big Situation Out Kind About Facts Had Around Inequality Understand Go Hear America Hang Impulse Them Confronted Figures Homeless University

My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we'd train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse. Matthew Hayden

Day Together Every Day Long Every Collapse Would Brother Physically Studied Almost Years End Five Train Human Movements Elder Coach Used Who Gary Session University

For several years at the University of Virginia, students had an annual tradition of raising hell around campus, burning tar barrels and shooting pistols into the air. Matthew Pearl

Hell Virginia Air Several Students Had Annual Around Tradition Years Tar Campus Shooting Pistols Burning Barrels Raising University

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. Maya Lin

School Fine Fine Arts Casting Dean Arts Using Dad Playground University

People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university - very close mates - long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake. Mel Giedroyc

Work Friendship Me People Cake Long Important Before Nice Our Telly Seeing Like Most Most Important Thing Always Important Thing Cherry Were Mates Very Close Did Any Going The Most Important Little Used Sue Thing University

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born - where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the U.K., he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family's history. Mel Giedroyc

Family History Engineer Father Before Engineering Every Hong Kong Back Spent Civil Minute Born He Pole Himself Read Although Kong Aeroplanes His Moved Where Spare Then Worked Researching Descent Designed University

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.' Melanie Lynskey

Drama Studying Like Modern Just Wanna Place Acting English University

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century. Melvyn Bragg

Future Great Science Country Think Earn Way Point Could Adventure Prime Economically Like How Provider Intellectual Prizes Departments Arts Newborn Which Century Riches Show Shown Two Imaginative University

I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles. Merry Clayton

College Say Charles Ray Ray Charles Always Blossoms University

I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one day when you deliver your youngest child to the university, you will look her in the eye and say, 'You will give back.' Mia Love

Life Work Day You Work Hard Will Back Say One Day Eye Tell Give Deliver Look Child Improve Children Them Youngest Youngest Child Your Hard Lives Her University

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade. Michael Cerveris

Time Father First Stage Kid About Schools First Time Grade Often Little Little Kid Used Productions Ever Professor Needed University

I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time. Michael Douglas

War Time Peace School Last-Minute Our East East Coast Minute League Protest Hippy Go Were Up Ivy Ivy League Going Movements Grew Decided Fantastic Coast Last University

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors. Michael Franti

Work Funny Me School College Funny Thing Francisco High Athletic High School Scholarship Study Got Get Just Happened San San Francisco Challenged Play Professors Play Basketball Thing Basketball University

Too many people go to university. Michael Gove

People Too Many People Too Go Many University

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well. Michael Hintze

Work Me People Smart Think Seem Smarter Well Sure Am Were Lot Than Done Quite Harder University

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots. Michael N. Castle

Remember Important Believe Always Roots University

University Quotes

No more university quotes