My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy. — Joseph D. Pistone Copy Share Image
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave. — William James Copy Share Image
If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off! — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most… — Aaron Elkins Copy Share Image
But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course… — David Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Elizabeth’s entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours! — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
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