Quotes by Academic I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. A. S. Byatt academicnovelistshappens I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. Ad Reinhardt marketplaceacademicopposites I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. Adrienne Rich academicworldthinking As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere. Ahmet Davutoglu lifestyleacademic I'm a commercial person, not an academic. Alan Sugar academicpersons If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. Albert Ellis membersacademicdone Academic theology is false. Alexander Schmemann theologyacademic I have not had any serious non-academic job. Amartya Sen academicseriousjobs We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path. Ameen Rihani shellsacademicpath If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar. Amos Oz stealingacademicbook I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am. Andrea Savage academic Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions. Andrew Bird biologyacademickind I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me. Anthony Hopkins paintingacademicwriting The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor. Benedict Cumberbatch academicactorsdoe Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. Bernice Johnson Reagon impactenvironmentacademic I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me. Betty Friedan academicwantworld I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it. Blake Bailey passionateacademicwant To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose. C. Wright Mills academicovercomingfirsts Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. Camille Paglia academictasteamerica I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself. Chath Piersath academicviewswriting123456»
