Top 27 Emeritus Quotes
#1. I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
James Gibbons
#2. Sara: As professor emeritus, you ought to know why it hurts. But you don't know.
Sara: You know so much, and you don't know anything.
Ingmar Bergman
#3. UCLA psychology professor emeritus Albert Mehrabian discovered that face-to-face communication can be broken down into three components: words, tone of voice, and body language.
John C. Maxwell
#4. Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.
Nelson Rodrigues
#5. I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.
Jon Scieszka
#6. I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
Joe Barton
#7. Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what.
Carol Piner
#8. I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
Karl Von Frisch
#9. I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
#11. I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
Stephen Leacock
#12. The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
Camille Paglia
#13. I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.
Al Michaels
#14. His[Jesus'] death on the Cross is the culmination of that turning of God against himself in which he gives himself in order to raise man up and save him. This is love in its most radical form.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
#15. As a fourteen-year-old, he'd not been old enough to have sympathy for her - for either the child or the adult that she was.
John Irving
#16. Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
Virginia Woolf
#17. We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.
Ernest Istook
#18. Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman
#19. My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
Anna Banks
#20. Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
Spike Lee
#21. I am always able to speak with him (Christ) inwardly. But I am nevertheless just a lowly little man who does not always reach all the way up to him.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
#22. WHEN WE ARE OPEN AND GIVING OF OUR LIGHT, WE CREATE AN ENDLESS REFLECTION THAT OUTLIVES OUR HUMAN EXISTENCE.
Gary L. Friedman
#23. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.
Richard Sibbes
#24. All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.
Osho
#25. My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'.
April Pearson
#26. You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.
Craig Ferguson
