Top 35 Doctorate Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Doctorate Quotes from famous people such as David Morrell, Stephen Pagliuca, Laurence Yep, Kailash Kher, Lee Corso, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator ha

Some people might be surprised that ‘Rambo’s creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I’m writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world.
David Morrell
I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn’t afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I’ve been there ever since.
Stephen Pagliuca
In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner’s early novels.
Laurence Yep
I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
Kailash Kher
I had gotten a master’s degree in administration supervision with it in mind that I would some day be a professor, then get a doctorate degree and move up and eventually be president of a university.
Lee Corso
I have a neuroscience background – that’s what my doctorate is in – and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
Mayim Bialik
I wrote my novel ‘Bitter Greens’ as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
Kate Forsyth
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the ‘real world.’ So I started working for newspapers.
Tom Wolfe
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
Kate Atkinson
My mom worked her way all the way up; she has a doctorate in anthropology. Imagine doing that while having three kids. It’s just amazing. She provided the best possible example in terms of chasing your dreams.
Kofi Kingston
I started to get my doctorate, not to be called ‘doctor.’ Those are just little things you get to get recognition.
John Kani
When I’m done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I’m working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.
Shaquille O’Neal
I contracted malaria while working in the field. That was the impetus for me to pursue a doctorate in community health. As a young academic, I investigated the patterns of malaria’s spread and the potential measures we could employ to control it.
Tedros Adhanom
When you’re doing mountain rescue, you don’t take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It’s about context.
Rory Stewart
I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.
Julia Holter
Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history of guiding terrorist groups.
Peter Bergen
I had a certificate that said, ‘Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,’ that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.
Ronda Rousey
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.
Paul Heyse
I’m done with the nicknames. Actually, when I obtain my doctorate, I will not allow people to call me Shaq anymore, either.
Shaquille O’Neal
I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee’s effect on the American theater.
Robert Vaughn
The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.
Sharmila Tagore
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 am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate… if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished… but I’m not going there… I don’t have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out – just listen.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew – my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.
John Knoll
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.
Mary Doria Russell
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
Karl von Frisch
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
Dolly Parton
I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.
Jessye Norman
My Ph.D. is in computer vision and machine learning. I developed software that can read your emotions from your face as part of my doctorate work.
Rana el Kaliouby
It’s pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn’t get any better.
Taj Mahal
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm

I have a lot of influences. I’m American-schooled. I’m classically trained. I’m a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don’t pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor’s degree, but I’m still a cook.
Emeril Lagasse
Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.
Bikram Choudhury
As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.
Ahmed Zewail
My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.
Travis Scott