Lectures Quotes · Page 4

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

— Gary Zukav

I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.

— Howard Pyle

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

— Bob Woodward

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

— Kanye West

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

— James H. Boren

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

— James Lasdun

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

— David Wolfe

Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.

— Ilona Andrews

A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey…

— Petr Skrabanek

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know…

— John M. Tyler

It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they…

— Dean Wareham

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only…

— Robert Hass

But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course…

— David Rittenhouse

His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most…

— Aaron Elkins

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses…

— Thomas Jefferson

I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,'…

— Kathleen Hanna

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order…

— D. H. Lawrence

In the Marquette Lecture volume, I focus on the question in the title. I emphasize the social and political costs of being…

— Larry Hurtado

“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone…

— Christopher Hitchens

For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry…

— Tessa Dare

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of…

— Ernst T. Krebs

If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue.…

— Elias Chacour

To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending…

— Arthur Frommer

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

— Os Guinness

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

— Hari Kunzru

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

— Ramakrishna

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

— Hendrik Lenstra

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

— Elbert Hubbard

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

— D. H. Lawrence

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

— Marco Rubio

I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.

— Robert Bateman

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

— Rush Limbaugh

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

— John Gould

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you…

— Samuel Johnson

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

— Zig Ziglar

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

— Jacob Gates

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

— Rick Riordan

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my…

— Magdi Yacoub