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
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
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
I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two… — Dorothy Hodgkin Copy Share Image
People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Welcome to my world! I've been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see… — Blanca Li Copy Share Image
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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
I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my… — Marianne Williamson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
![“Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything to today's discussion are the insights into the Biblical texts that are contained in his lectures and books. They include Messengers of God [1976], Five Biblical Portraits [1978]…” quote by Hershel Shanks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/hershel-shanks-25800_biblical_awarded-the-nobel-peace-prize-in-1986-el_864515.jpg)
![“Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e6/seamus-heaney-1711_anything-can-happen_anything-can-happen-is-also-incidentally_181651.png)
![“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/paul-laffoley-7077_able_buckminster-fuller-was-quite-willing-to_1724572.jpg)
