Research Scholar Quotes

#1. Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Henry Adams

#2. I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.

Miranda July

#3. Christian scholarship will be a poor and paltry thing, worth little attention, until the Christian scholar, under the control of his authentic commitment, devises theories that lead to promising, interesting, fruitful, challenging lines of research.

Craig G. Bartholomew

#4. As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

Steve Reich

#5. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

Antoni Tapies

#6. The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Stephen King

#7. When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

William C. Brown

#8. A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.

Richard D. Altick

#9. The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

Elton John

#10. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Harold Bloom

#11. But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.

Salvador Plascencia

#12. By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

Stephen King

#13. I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.

Holly Madison