Professors Quotes - Page 20

• And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Possession, Johnson

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• Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it be. It won't be long.' Richard stared in disbelief. 'You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?' The Professor looked blankly at him.

  Douglas Adams

  Song, Horse, Long

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law.

  Stephen Colbert

  Law, Guy, Habeas Corpus

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• The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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• Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ravens, Enough, Knows

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

  Michael Gruber

  Teacher, People, Owing

  Michael Gruber (2009). “The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?” “Merlin’s beard, no,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to.” “He will not be single-handed!” said Professor McGonagall loudly, plunging her hand inside her robes. “Oh yes he will, Minerva!” said Dumbledore sharply. “Hogwarts needs you!

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Needs, Fudge

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• Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Order, Years

  "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

  Jules Verne

  Feet, Savages, Shore

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• Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Peter, Said

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

  Walt Whitman

  Capitalist

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Secret, Funny Harry Potter

  "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 26, 1997.

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• I want to be an activist professor.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Want, Activist

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• If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Book, People

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• Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

  Ezra Pound

  Suicide, Latin, Long

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• Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

  Steven Pinker

  World, Fields, Topics

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• I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

  Shimon Peres

  Night, People, Decision

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Doctors, Grandfather

  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern. 

  Sarah Palin

  War, Winning, Law

  Sarah Palin's Keynote Address at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, www.c-span.org. February 6, 2010.

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• I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

  Camille Paglia

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  "Warrior for the word". Interview with Kerry Lauerman, www.salon.com. April 07, 2005.

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• We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

  Carl Sandburg

  Teaching, Two, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.12, University of Illinois Press

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• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Guidance, Enough

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.33, University of Illinois Press

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• Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

  J. K. Rowling

  Needs, Potters, Remember

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• Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

  Thomas Hardy

  Ideas, Color, Intuition

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• Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Book, Effort, Literature

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