When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international… — James McKeen Cattell Copy Share Image
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience,… — Howard Finster Copy Share Image
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail,… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity;… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image