Famous Quotes & Sayings

We must recruit the very best student-athletes we can. ... We have a very high standard for graduation rates for our entire university community, ... While there are certainly examples of academic success, there are simply not enough.

Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers and, most certainly, barometers of their future employment prospects. Given the president's emphasis in the State of the Union on the importance of developing math and science skills in America's students in order to keep America competitive globally, we do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances his global competitiveness agenda or helps our students.

Greg Graffin

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.

We haven't had a party during this academic school year yet, but the hope is to implement the shirt policy at the next one.

We anticipate incremental growth because of the recognition the TV program will bring to the academic program,

Sonia Sotomayor

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.

We are disappointed to have any team below the NCAA cut line and will only increase our diligence to ensure that our student-athletes have the academic support and encouragement they need to be successful.

Plus, I've had six surgeries and I have one more to go with my arm. They had to put a plate and screws in last time. My body can't really handle it anymore. And academics need to take priority.

Politics, for most Americans, is not an everyday-life issue. It is not something that affects you personally. That is why these demonstrations are so interesting, because what it shows is that immigration is not an academic issue; it is a genuine issue on the Hispanic immigrant side. You are talking about your friends, relatives, neighbors.

Henry Jenkins

No academic is going to know these books half as well as the fans that will be gathering.

One of the biggest things is that the academic and research community has access to the code to improve it.

Pat Barker

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

Mark McKinnon

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

Raquel Welch

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

Rodney Brooks

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Two years ago, we were in academic emergency. We have shown continuous improvement as a school system. If we don't get this levy passed, we will lose everything we have gained.

Harry Lloyd

My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.

I see football in Montgomery changing, not for the better. The excitement and enthusiasm is not the same. There are so many things the kids can do now. Football is second priority. Academics kills us. Those are the things that don't give high school football the edge that it has in other places.

I see a kid who is getting a second chance to get the education he missed out on after high school. He has a chance to be academic all-conference.

I reviewed the textbook and I liked what I saw. I saw an academic text that steers clear of being a devotional text.

I returned to Princeton with a research assistantship on February 7, 1934, and remained there through the academic year 1934-35.

Texas' current retention policy has not demonstrated any evidence of improving student success. It has not materially improved our high school graduation rate, nor has retention resulted in improved academic proficiency of graduates.

Margaret Spellings

My top priority is raising student achievement, and I'm going to be as flexible as I possibly can to help all students, ... This is about children's futures and ensuring that New York City's parents have as many options as possible for their children. In exchange for more flexibility, New York City has committed to being accountable for making high-quality academic help available to more students, which will lead to increased achievement.

My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.

David Newman

My main priorities are to increase the student numbers, keep the school functioning well and maintain a superior academic environment for the students.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

Harold E. Varmus

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

Harold E. Varmus

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Donald Knuth

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

Winners are candidates (who) have the strongest record of academic accomplishments and the biggest potential for college.

Windows Live Academic Search is another example of our continued efforts to bring innovative search offerings into new categories. We are looking forward to hearing from our customers during the beta period, which will help us improve upon what is available today.

We studied in the streets. We studied academics and the people the human spirit.

Mark Johnson

To do what we have done in four years, yeah, it's a little bit surprising. But at the same (time), if you bring in good players and you bring in kids who are committed not only for the academic standpoint but also committed to becoming better players, things can happen.