Ph D Quotes

“William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen. Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree and accepted an instructorship at the same University, where he taught until his death in 1956. He did not rise above the rank of assistant professor, and few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses. When he died his colleagues made a memorial contribution of a medieval manuscript to the University library. This manuscript may still be found in the Rare Books Collection, bearing the inscription: 'Presented to the Library of the University of Missouri, in memory of William Stoner, Department of English. By his colleagues.'

An occasional student who comes upon the name may wonder idly who William Stoner was, but he seldom pursues his curiosity beyond a casual questions. Stoner's colleagues, who held him in no particular esteem when he was alive, speak of him rarely now; to the older ones, his name is a reminder of the end that awaits them all, and to the younger ones it is merely a sound which evokes no sense of the past and no identity with which they can associate themselves or their careers.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try. What good are explanations? There is no possibility of explaining how such a work [Mozart's Requiem, in the instance] could ever have come into being. (The same holds true for certain poems, which should not be analyzed either.)”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher

“Fakta bahwa kita memiliki dua telinga dan satu mulut, mengandung suatu arti bahwa kita harus lebih banyak mendengar daripada berbicara.”
― Sidney Newton Bremer

“Pupuklah seni untuk menjadi orang yang menyenangkan dengan berbicara yang benar dan diam.”
― Sidney Newton Bremer

“Kesederhanaan dalam segala sesuatu adalah hasil karya tertinggi.”
― Sidney Newton Bremer

“Ciri khas diri kita, terdapat dalam kualitas pekerjaan kita.”
― Sidney Newton Bremer

“In those days he seemed to be a nice old gentleman, and his existence always served practical purposes, such as when I was accused of misconduct, for then I could shift the blame to him by saying, "Old Tacet did it." Naturally, no one would believe me, this being a last-ditch effort to avoid the hairbrush. If my mother were alive today, she'd laugh at me for still fantasizing - yet it's the truth.

Even now, whenever necessary, I still summon forth the old geezer - in theater programs, for example, to credit him for costumes that I've designed, ones for which I prefer not getting the hook. Yes, he's another of my names: the unlikely but lovely and perfectly logical”
― Paul Taylor, Private Domain: An Autobiography

“Without naming anyone if you think for a moment, you will realize that some of the most well-known names on the spiritual 'lecture circuit' are scientists, not spiritual masters. A Ph.D. after one's name is almost mandatory to be considered an expert in some New Age circles, and the initials M.D., are almost equivalent to a kind of contemporary spiritual priesthood.”
― Laurence Galian, 666: Connection with Crowley

“William Thelin is a noted academic, teaching English, specifically rhetoric, composition, and linguistics, at the college level for decades. He's spoken at over 100 academic conferences and is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and the College Composition and Communication. He's well-respected among his peers.”
― William Thelin