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Professor Braithwope was undergoing a very dangerous test indeed. For queen and country, the potentate had said. For science, Sophronia thought.
— Gail Carriger
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, I hope it lands on a philosophy professor.
— Stephen Colbert
Also Harry was in love. It would be a three-way wedding: him, the Time-Turner, and Professor Quirrell.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.
— William Badke
Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
— Alice Dunbar Nelson
Will you gentlemen take breakfast with me?' asked the Professor. There is little need to record the answer to that particular question.
— Robert Rankin
If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
— Brother Ali
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.
— Henri Lebesgue
The Professor shook his head. 'On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil.
— Robert Rankin
- Be careful, professor. We don't yet know whose hands the town is in. - Whoever they belong to, they're the same hands. — Evelio Rosero
I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
— William Sloane Coffin
I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
— Stephen Leacock
Our Headmaster is taking a short break,' said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.
— J.K. Rowling
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
— Niall Ferguson
PROFESSOR RUBEK. Well, they are trifles, perhaps; but at any rate the time passes for us in that way as well as another, Maia.
— Henrik Ibsen
The Professor gripped his axe, having pulled it, with some difficulty, from the boy's head.
— Neil Davies
In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.
— Jules Verne
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.
— George Santayana
He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband," thought the Professor's widow. "On my life and honor, I will make him pay for it.
— Wilkie Collins
Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial
— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
— Zephyr Teachout
I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
— Frederick Banting
History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living.(Professor Alistair Dawkins) — Samuel L. Norman
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity ... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
— Robert J. Allison
Here was the old Professor Emerson, simmering beneath Gabriel's chastened exterior.
— Sylvain Reynard
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
— Ben Bernanke
(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.
— Jerry Lewis
Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Wisdom is a teacher,God is its professor.
The wise are His students,
life is His rod,
and eternal life is our reward. — Matshona Dhliwayo
It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.
— Saul Williams
An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.
— Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless( ... )
— Tara Lain
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
— Cate Marvin
But I'm the professor! This is my class! Show some respect!" "Okay,
— James Patterson
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
— Barack Obama
Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
— John Henry Carver
To nobody's surprise, Professor Sprout started their lesson by lecturing them about the importance of O.W.L.s. Harry
— J.K. Rowling
The position was offered at the last minute, when the scheduled professor found a better-paying job delivering pizza.
— David Sedaris
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
— Willard Wigan
Nestled up against the wall, where Professor Quirrell had stumbled, glistened the crushed remains of a beautiful blue beetle.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
When you succeed, you become the professor of the world
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I looked into the face of addiction and it terrified me!
— David W. Earle
The sign on the outside of the office door said: LADISLAV PELC, D.M.PHIL, PREHUMOUS PROFESSOR OF MORBID BIBLIOMANCY.
— Terry Pratchett
It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.
— Gail Carriger
It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
— Donald Sadoway
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
— Ernest Rutherford
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'
— Pete Seeger
Professor McGonagall, the Headmaster set fire to a chicken!""He wha- — Eliezer Yudkowsky
NO!The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound. — J.K. Rowling
You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.
— Jedediah Bila
On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: He taught the love of truth.
— David McCullough
Hogwarts is threatened!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!
— J.K. Rowling
Like the college professor he was, Kittredge groped only for big words, and, finding no apt ones, he coined a lot of untranslatable new ones.
— Kurt Vonnegut
In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases.
— Wallace Stegner
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
— James Joyce
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.
— Theodore Kaczynski
The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?
— William E. Nix
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Don't argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God's Word.
— Billy Graham
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
— Carl Sandburg
How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?'The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran. — Kim Newman
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.
— Arno C. Gaebelein
We are meant to break you down, Dennys, his professor said. Only the truly talented will be able to come back from it.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecturefrom him, of course. — Gregory Benford
