I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
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I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book… — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth… — Joshua Kendall Copy Share Image
Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit"… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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“At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image