Student Quotes

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

When the student is ready... the lesson appears.

I've always loved being a student.

Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

I was a terrible English student.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

I was a horrible student.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

I was a disinterested student.

I was always a very good student.

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.