Dissertation Quotes - Page 2

• A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

  Keith Devlin

  Writing, Years, Three

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• The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

  Robert Southey

  Humble, Progress Of Society, Six

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.31

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• I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Writing

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• I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Creativity, Mean, Filmmaking

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• Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dream, Wish, Rambling

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.137, Macmillan

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• The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Men, Worry

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• This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

  Vijay Iyer

  Soul

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when we were lying in bed and, if I recall correctly, I asked Tracy if we were ready to have a family now, and she said sure. That was it.

  Ryan Knighton

  Lying, Night, Decision

  Ryan Knighton (2010). “C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark”, p.9, Knopf Canada

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• I did my dissertation on Kafka.

  Jessie Ware

  "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation.

  Frank Sinatra

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Men, Talking

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• It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field, evaluate the introduction of the intrauterine contraceptive device. At that time the IUD was considered to be the panacea for India's population problem. George's dissertation was focused on population and he became interested in the question of this new technology and how people were responding to it.

  Ruth Simmons

  Husband, Technology, Population Problem

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

  Scott McClanahan

  Writing, Artist, Levels

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Ideas, Magazines, Feminine

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