Famous quotes containing the words professor and/or robert:
“This unlettered man’s speaking and writing are standard English. Some words and phrases deemed vulgarisms and Americanisms before, he has made standard American; such as “It will pay.” It suggests that the one great rule of composition—and if I were a professor of rhetoric I should insist on this—is, to speak the truth. This first, this second, this third; pebbles in your mouth or not. This demands earnestness and manhood chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Converse: I can’t believe we did this.
Marge’s father: A sense of unreality is not a legal defense.”
—Judith Rascoe, U.S. screenwriter, Robert Stone (b. 1939)