Academic

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

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

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

I'm very competitive and academic.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I support high academic standards. Period.

States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief, it's federal law.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

Merit should count more than academic background.

I love art, but I'm not an academic, I just like what I like.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

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

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic, I wanted to be like Einstein.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

War is not an academic exercise.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.