Paula Broadwell Quotes

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

I have an economics degree from Harvard.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I was never going to be a scholar.

My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.

I'm a child of academics.