Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

- Donald Sadoway

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

- Kay Redfield Jamison

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

- John Henry Carver

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

- J. Philippe Rushton

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

- Jeffery Deaver

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

- Jane Goodall

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

- Heraclitus

I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.

- Frederick Banting

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

- Francis Fukuyama

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.

- Alan Kay

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

- Daniel Kahneman

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

- Charles Lyell

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!

- Caroline Leavitt

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

- Carlton Cuse

It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.

- Charlotte Dujardin

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

- Condoleezza Rice

My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.

- Bertil Ohlin

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

- Ben Barnes

My dad was an English professor.

- Blake Lively