Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's very safe in the academic community; no one thinks anything of it. But to some extent there's more talk than action.

It's very safe in the academic community: no one thinks anything of it,

It's very gratifying that something I've done as a social scientist may make a difference in the world. Us poor academics rarely feel like anything we're doing makes a direct impact.

It will be designed as an elementary school, whereas (the current academic building) is designed as a middle school-high school.

Jim Webb

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.

Gary Roberts

They can say that it's economics and academics all they want. But the reality is that no matter how they handle our jobs, there will be no cost savings.

They were chosen because of their expertise in campus planning working with the best academics and universities in the country, ... The team that they have put together for this effort is world class, with extensive experience in academic campus plans.

John Diamond

They'll be working together on academic programs. But it will remain one of the seven universities of the state system.

It was just seeing how competitive I actually was in academics when I got to high school. Mrs. Moody and Mrs. Trevino have been my math teachers. They really expanded my like for that subject.

They've really got their work cut out for them. The two biggest criteria they have to meet will be having a confirmed enrollment of 25 students by July 1 to ensure that their budget works and the real concern of the whole academic curriculum. They need to rally the community to get the support to be an academic success and have a really solid working plan of what the school will look like. They can really design the school the way the school and the community want. If they can come up with that plan, enrollment shouldn't be a problem. It's a challenge, but they can do it.

Steve Case

It's another avenue that students have to get out and meet other people, and get away from the normal academic environment.

Stephen Jackson

It's hard to maintain in high school unless you have your own feeder system. We have a lot of kids going to Academic Magnet or who choose to go to Bishop England. The next few years, we could do well, but the key is to keep getting the kids in.

It's been pretty easy adjusting to the college life. I went to school for the first semester in Pennsylvania so I got real used to the academic perspective of it and it took me no time to get used to living up here. There are a lot of good people so it's been an awesome transition.

Kevin Conroy

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It's not uncommon for private schools across the nation to hold kids back for a year, normally in the intermediate age, ... It's for academic reasons, emotional, physical reasons, to fully develop the child. It wasn't to gain an athletic advantage. It was to develop the study habits to succeed in college.

It's not worth our time to go after kids without the academic credentials.

It's the magnitude of it I think that's making it difficult for people to grasp what's happened. London has been in touch. The Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School, have all been in touch to offer their sympathies as well.

Dominic Keating

It's the end of an era for the franchise, that's for sure, ... It's the end of producer Rick Berman 's stint. Then another man will put his paw print on another version four years from now. Try his luck -- 'Starfleet Academy 90210 In Space' -- something like that.

It's the best indicator of how much academic language they are acquiring. Occasionally, you have kids who all of a sudden get on a real learning curve and you just pour everything you can. It's amazing, they soak up so much.

James Wright

It is this type of leadership that promotes academic excellence in the public schools of Alabama.

Naveen Andrews

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Lauren Groff

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

Mira Sorvino

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

Peter Bergen

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

Pierre Trudeau

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Leonard Bernstein

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Paul Samuelson

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Nicholas Negroponte

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

For the past decade, the Legislature has been shifting the responsibility of funding Texas schools onto local districts and onto the local property tax, but the local property tax can no longer bear this heavy burden. The Supreme Court's decision makes clear that it is time for the Legislature to step up to the plate and pay for the high academic standards it has imposed on districts and students.

The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them.

There's also all the tedious academic books that come out. There's something like a book or an article on Beowulf being produced every week at the moment.

There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China,

John York

The relationship with the 49ers Academy started before we got here. Denise and I both love coming here to be part of teaching the kids. If you can get some of the students to realize the importance of education, and you can look out and see in their eyes that they are paying attention, they have the best chance to improve their lives.