Top 14 American Scholar Quotes

#1. When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Denis Johnson

American Scholar Quotes #230744
#2. What is more important to a library than anything else
than everything else
is the fact that it exists.
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

Archibald MacLeish

American Scholar Quotes #376106
#3. The American biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, in a book whose subtitle is The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why, unfolds the huge uncertainty befogging the New Testament texts.

Richard Dawkins

American Scholar Quotes #71453
#4. The great fish eat the small.

Alexander Barclay

American Scholar Quotes #391513
#5. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Scholar Quotes #722320
#6. How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

Andre Aciman

American Scholar Quotes #762701
#7. As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

John C. Hawkes

American Scholar Quotes #781850
#8. OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

American Scholar Quotes #812162
#9. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Scholar Quotes #827941
#10. There lay certitude; there, in the daily round.
All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste
your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.

Albert Camus

American Scholar Quotes #853180
#11. Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

Jack F. Matlock Jr.

American Scholar Quotes #863917
#12. In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

Mark Jason Dominus

American Scholar Quotes #1356040
#13. These words are vomit.

Tahereh Mafi

American Scholar Quotes #1631470
#14. Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Nolan Bushnell

American Scholar Quotes #1744671

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