There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

- Allan Bloom

Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.

- Asif Kapadia

I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.

- Ashley Jensen

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

- Antony Hewish

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

- Aasif Mandvi

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

- Arne Duncan

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

- Anurag Kashyap

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

- Anna Deavere Smith

I'm still a novice student.

- Ang Lee

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

- Allan Bloom

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

- A. Whitney Brown

Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking. She was one of the leaders of the desegregation of Nashville, basically. She was a student at Fisk University who was one of the founding members of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

- Ava DuVernay

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

- Anthony Hopkins

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

- Anne Sullivan

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

- Alan Dershowitz

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

- Al Sharpton

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I was a horrible student.

- Adam Carolla