Arthur Ross. Professor Fate

Famous quotes containing the words arthur, ross, professor and/or fate:

    I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady from Dubuque.
    —Harold W. Ross (1892–1951)

    Once I had a professor say to me, “You know you have as much education as a lot of white people.” I answered, “Doctor, I have more education than most white people.”
    Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

    See him, when starved to death and turned to dust,
    Presented with a monumental bust!
    The poet’s fate is here in emblem shown:
    He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
    Samuel Wesley (1691–1739)