Quotes About Graduate Studies

#1. I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol P. Christ

#2. I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'

Charles Dance

#3. The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

David Gross

#4. All the physical comes from the mental.

Clara Hughes

#5. Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

Bruce Robinson

#6. PhD is possible at any age!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.

Paul Michael Glaser

#8. You really have to get to know the person's mental state. You have to understand what drives them and what motivates them.

Robin Farina

#9. To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.

Tom Robbins

#10. Surely, the Creator was with me in every circumstance. He has granted me a successful completion of my doctorate degree.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

Richard Briers

#12. Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And to actually want to work that hard, you had to be at least a little bit screwed up.

Lev Grossman

#13. The pursuit of PhD is an enduring daring adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe - they just want to prove themselves.

Anne Sebba

#15. We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#17. Let every student of nature take this as a rule,
that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Francis Bacon

#18. My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Hill Harper

#19. He was a sleaze, a nobody, a former graduate student of English studies.

Jonathan Franzen

#20. Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Harold E. Varmus

#21. Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#22. People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

M.F. Moonzajer

#23. I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

Chen-Ning Yang

#24. Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Marilyn Hacker

#25. God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

Timothy Keller

#26. The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

Zoe Kazan

#28. Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Sydney Pollack