Professorship Quotes

#1. If you are a Nigerian professor and your professorship cannot be felt practically in the Nigerian society; then to hell with your professorship!

Tony Osborg

#2. A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution. - THOMAS JEFFERSON

Richard Dawkins

#3. You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

Kurt Huber

#4. I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

Blixa Bargeld

#5. Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#7. In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.

Elias James Corey

#8. A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.

Tyrone Hayes

#10. The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

Paul D. Boyer

#11. A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

Simon Newcomb

#12. Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.

Gabrielle Zevin

#13. I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.

Wolfman Jack

#14. If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

Jacques Lacan

#15. You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps.

Buddy Wakefield

#16. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.

Walter Moers

#17. Sunshine and Shadows...That is also the pattern of our lives, ain't so? We have the gut things and the sad, one after another, but all part of who we are

Marta Perry

#18. I still skate occasionally but last time I did, at our show in Hanford, I did a 360 frontside varial over our rolled-up banner and broke every damn bone in my body. Ok, I only broke one bone. Well, I didn't break any bones, but I could have!

Jade Puget