British Universities Quotes

#1. They're very keen on disillusioning young women at British universities, you know, I suppose to make us resigned and grateful later on.

Caleb Crain

#2. It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Robert Winston

#3. Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I

Bill Bryson

#4. In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

Arthur Lewis

#5. More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

Najib Razak

#6. 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.

Nigel Short

#7. I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

Dan Hicks

#8. You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

Darren Flutie

#9. I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

Charles H. Townes

#10. Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

Gail Zappa

#11. Instinctively already knew what was next.

Ellie Danes

#12. I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.

Brad Listi

#13. God's name is not to be ia stopgap to make up for our lack of words.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Many atheists embrace Jesus as having been a great teacher, and yet he's the one who had the most to say about hell.

J.P. Moreland

#15. If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)

Andrew Solomon

#16. Real life is like that - it does not follow a neat plan. sometimes you have to get things very messily wrong so you can see how to get them right.

Miriam Morrison

#17. When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.

Bertrand Russell

#18. Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.

Louisa May Alcott

#19. If your job wasn't performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I'm not sure I believe it's necessary

Tim Krieder

#20. One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.

Lucy Larcom

#21. It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

Martha Graham

#22. A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

Alan Cohen