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A library is all the university you will ever need. — Ray Bradbury

At the University of Utah we not only educate the mind we transform it. — Michael K. Young

The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi. — Yuval Noah Harari

The universe is a great university. — Sai Baba

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942. — Antony Hewish

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. — Henry A. Kissinger

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities. — Jane Jacobs

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work. — Natalie Massenet

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. — Howard Zinn

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university. — Stephen A. Schwarzman

A WEEK BEFORE commencement, at which Stoner was to receive his doctorate, Archer Sloane offered him a full-time instructorship at the University. — John Edward Williams

He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man. — Parul Wadhwa

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder. — Joan Van Ark

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study. — Paulo Coelho

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia. — Bernie Sanders

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war. — Daniel J. Evans

As much as they were right for each other, time wasn't right for them. — Parul Wadhwa

When girls were permitted to wear slacks to Creelman on Saturdays in 1963, it was headline news in the Ontarion. — James G. Snell

There are no lawyers anymore, and the university is closed. — Margaret Atwood

The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday. — Carol Plum-Ucci

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. — Sebastian Coe

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative. — Steven Johnson

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Two preppies from the University of South Florida tried to hit on her with cocaine jokes. Sharon — Tim Dorsey

A collection of books is the best of all universities. — Thomas Carlyle

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. — Clifford Geertz

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. — Maya Lin

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. — Antonio Tabucchi

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system. — Ken Robinson

In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry. — Ryoji Noyori

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along. — Betty Hill

The University of Life is greater than the universities of men. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think ... They seek peace, encounter. — Pope Francis

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University. — Ren Ng

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. — Thomas Carlyle

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota. — Dave Winfield

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. — Horatio Bottomley

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal. — Kate Cruise O'Brien

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me. — Vanessa L. Williams

Oxford University offered prizes for the works that attacked Vedic knowledge. — Devamrita Swami

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually. — Jhumpa Lahiri

He knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university. — Douglas Coupland

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors. — James Nesbitt

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. — Anton Chekhov

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded. — Henry David Thoreau

Today, the entire country is an immense University. — Fidel Castro

The best university is the university of life. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language. — Ana Tijoux

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University. — Kathryn Harrison

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics. — Gary Zukav

I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon. — Chip Kelly

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. — Johan Huizinga

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. — William Congreve

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo Da Vinci

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year. — John Le Carre

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. — Azar Nafisi

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. — Linus Torvalds

If a university's colors were blue and pink, they could be the Fighting Sunsets. — Jarod Kintz

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions. — Cynthia Ozick

At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability. — Susan Cain

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology. — Lars Mikkelsen

Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I — Bill Bryson

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do. — Jeanette Winterson

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots. — Mary Augusta Ward

There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten. — Bill Bryson

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. — Douglass North

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. — Richard Powers

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free
society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation. — James Bryant Conant

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made. — Michael Gove

A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant — Sheryl Sandberg

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart. — Allen Klein

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university. — Kristin Kreuk

but she studied classics, the most pointless subject in the university. — Natasha Pulley

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. — Vincent Massey

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers. — Mahatma Gandhi

No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance — Douglas Adams

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. — Liam Neeson

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University. — Jerry Costello

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it. — Tom Stoppard

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. — Jack Steinberger

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. — Stephen Cole Kleene

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal. — Paul D. Boyer

The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes. — Paullina Simons

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country. — Winston Churchill

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go. — James Van Allen

The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data. — Andrey Illarionov

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds. — Michael O'Leary

I move in the university of the waves. — Pablo Neruda

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. — Henry A. Kissinger

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton

I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations. — Parul Wadhwa

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year. — David Alan Grier

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury

Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. - overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School — David James Duncan