PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in… — David Cross Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But… — Edward Lee Thorndike Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been… — Billy Casper Copy Share Image
I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ...… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't… — Stephen Cole Kleene 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
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
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet… — Alain de Botton 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
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
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image